Garadiavolo (Pteroplatytrygon, famiglia Dasyatidae)

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Garadiavolo (Pteroplatytrygon, family Dasyatidae)

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Dried breed shaped in the form of "devil fish".
Used as anticancer, antiepileptic.

Sruk

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Sruk

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brass

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Ceremonial spoons for ritual offerings decorated with effigies of Krisha

Particolare della sala

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Detail of the room

Al-Qur’ān

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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)

Maqāmāt

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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

Kitāb-al-Ḥašā’iš (Libro delle erbe)

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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

Kitāb-al-Ḥašā’iš (Libro delle erbe)

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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

al-Ḫamdu lillāhi

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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)

al-Qur’ān

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al-Qur’ān

The sūra 112 al-īṃhlās ('pure faith') in calligraphic form kūfī handasī (geometrized composition)

Kitāb-al-Ḥašā’iš (Libro delle erbe)

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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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