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Arabic translation of Dioscurides, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, more commonly known as the Materia medica. The work was originally translated from Greek into Arabic via Syriac by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (810-873) with the collaboration of Stephanus b. Bāsīl between 847-861 CE. This translation was slightly revised by Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm al-Nātilī in 990-991 CE. The current copy is based on an exemplar in the hand of al-Nātilī. The work was offered to the amīr of Samarqand, Abū ʿAlī al-Simǧūrī.
Naskh script, mostly without diacritical signs.
Brown full leather Islamic binding with flap and blind tooled decoration on the covers, not contemporary with the text block.
Acquired by Levinus Warner (1619-1665) and bequeathed to Leiden University on his death.
One of the oldest illustrated Arabic MSS in existence.
Not accessible without permission of the curator.
The manuscript underwent an extensive conservation treatment at the library's conservation studio in 2022.
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Arabic
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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