Text page from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides, c. 1224. This page is one of about thirty folios, now dispersed among various public and private collections, originally belonging to a codex in the Suleymaniye Library, Aya Sofya, Istanbul. The manuscript, of which the major part is still in Istanbul, contains a colophon giving the name of the scribe -- who may also have been the painter, Abd Allah ibn al-Fadi -- and the date, Rajab 621 (June-July, 1224).

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