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Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides (1224) by Abdallah ibn al-Fadl — ink, opaque watercolor Zoom

Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Abdallah ibn al-Fadl · 1224

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