"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

dated A.H. 621 /1224 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper · Islamic Art

Figural book painting started in the Islamic world as an art form in the late Abbasid Iraq of the 13th century. The translation of a Greek manuscript shows a Physian preparing an elixir.

Artist: 'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
Date: dated A.H. 621 /1224 CE
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Department: Islamic Art
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1913

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