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Garadiavolo (Pteroplatytrygon, family Dasyatidae)
Dried breed shaped in the form of "devil fish".
Used as anticancer, antiepileptic.
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Garadiavolo (Pteroplatytrygon, family Dasyatidae)
Dried breed shaped in the form of "devil fish".
Used as anticancer, antiepileptic.
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Sruk
brass
Ceremonial spoons for ritual offerings decorated with effigies of Krisha
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Al-Qur’ān
End of sūra 46 (part of verse 32 and verses 33-35)
beginning of sūra 47 (first verse and beginning of second)
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Maqāmāt
Miniature from a copy dated 1237 by Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī of al-Harīrī’s Maqāmāt (Sittings) (1054-1122)
In his shop a barber practices a bleeding with the help of a suction cup
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Kitab-al-Ḥašā'iš (Book of Herbs)
Persian translation of Ghiyāth to Dīn Muḥammad-i Raḍavī from the Arabic translation of Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn of Dioscorides' De materia medica (1st c)
Miniature with description of three plants
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Kitab-al-Ḥašā'iš (Book of Herbs)
Persian translation of Dioscorides' De Materia medica (1st c)
Miniature with description of two plants
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al-Ḫamdu lillāhi
First verse of the first sūra ("al-Fatihā") of the Qur'ān in calligraphic form kūfī handasī (geometrized composition)
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al-Qur’ān
The sūra 112 al-īṃhlās ('pure faith') in calligraphic form kūfī handasī (geometrized composition)
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Kitab-al-Ḥašā'iš (Book of Herbs)
Arabic translation of De Materia medica by Dioscorides (1st c)
Miniature depicting the Greek physician Erasistrate (m. 280 BC) in the company of an assistant
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