Iran/Persia: Portrait of a scribe at work, artist unknown. Considered a portrait of Sayyid Husayn Yazdi, the scribe of the treatise on Wonders of the World, c. 1540s. Figural imagery does not normally appear in a religious context, but there was a vigorous tradition of figural representation in other contexts, particularly that of science and medicine. Many of the Arabic versions of Dioscorides preserved today are testimony to a continuing and flourishing tradition of scientific illustration. Several profusely illustrated copies were produced, for example, in Baghdad in the 13th century.

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