Dioscorides Folio, 1224

ورقة ديسقوريدس (1224)

Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1977.91.

Depth

At a glance

Identifiers
official
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

In time

1210122012301240
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Arts of the book

Overview

A page from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides dated 1224, Abbasid Baghdad. In the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Arabic calligraphy and its teaching

Sources

  1. Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Dioscorides Folio, 1224”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/waraqa-diosqurid-1224/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Objects

Manuscripts, art, architecture and relics from collections worldwide.
Related

Arabesque

The interlaced vegetal ornament that became the signature of Islamic art, flowing across stucco, stone, wood and manuscripts.