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Two doctors sit on low couches, listening to the young apprentice seated on the floor between them. The book on the x-shaped bookstand beside the doctor on the left may be a medical handbook such as the one that this illustrates. Page from a manuscript of Dioscorides 'De Materia Medica', Iran, 1224. Pedanius Dioscorides was a Roman army doctor in the first century AD. His treatise describes how to make medicine from up to five hundred plants, explaining where to find each plant, how to harvest it, how to prepare it as a drug, and which ailments it will cure. The book was translated into Arabic in the mid-ninth century at a famous translation institute in Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom. Opaque watercolour and ink on paper, width 24.30 cm. Inv. AN 1934,1013.01.
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British Museum/London/Great Britain
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ART382290
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2927px × 3600px
Photo Credit
© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY
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13th century CE
Arabic script
Baghdad, Iraq
Conversation
De materia medica
Dioscorides, Pedanius (40-90, Greek physician)
Gouache
Ink
Iranian, Islamic Period
Paper
Patient, Illness
Physician
Student
Treatise (Manuscript)
Watercolor