De materia medica by Dioscorides

Description:

Physician Preparing an Elixir

Copyist:

Unknown

Translator:

Mihran ibn Mansur (12th century)

Language:

Arabic

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Location:

Iraq or Northern Jazira, possibly Baghdad

Dimensions:

Folio: H. 33.2 cm; W. 24.8 cm

Date:

1224

Inventory Number:

13.152.6

Lender:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic Art

Credit:

Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1913