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Rock Lotus: Sumulutun, page from the manuscript of the properties of trees
(اللوتس الصخري ، صفحة من مخطوطة خواص الأشجار)

Title	Rock Lotus: Sumulutun, page from the manuscript of the properties of trees
Title Original	اللوتس الصخري ، صفحة من مخطوطة خواص الأشجار
Author	The Greek Dioscorides, approximately 40-90
Author Original	ديوسقوريدس الإغريقي ،تقريبا
Publication Date:	XIII century
Publication Place	Iraq - Aga Khan Museum
Subject	Opaque watercolour, ink and silver on paper
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	29.6 × 20 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	AKM7
Record ID	object;EPM;ca;Mus21;12;ar
Library Location	Aga Khan Museum
Date	XIII century
Notes	Dioscorides was born around 40 AD in Anzarbus in Cilicia (currently Turkey). He had a great influence on science and practical practice from the Middle Ages until the sixteenth century. His treatise Medicinal Plants was first translated into Syriac, a generally common language in the Abbasid Empire (750-1258). The first direct Arabic translation had a Greek version by two researchers, Istafan Ibn Basil and Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, in the middle of the ninth century in Baghdad under The reign of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil (r. 847-61). Ibn Ishaq was an Arab physician and scholar, a Nestorian Christian, and known as a teacher of translators. He was active in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. According to sources, in 948, the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I presented a copy of the Book of Medicinal Plants as a gift to the Umayyad Caliph in Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman III (912-961). There is no evidence to confirm that the complete Arabic translation of this copy was It took place in Cordoba. In subsequent years, both the Greek text and the accompanying drawings continued to be revised and new copies were made. The famous Arabic version was completed in the thirteenth century, which was repeatedly copied and distributed and is now distributed in many public and private collections, including the collection of the Aga Khan Museum. It is known as the Properties of Trees, which describes the manufacture of medicines from about 500-600 plants and animals such as fish, shellfish, and mineral materials that form the basis of pharmacology in the countries of the Near East and beyond.
Sample Text	“Rock Lotus: Sumulutun, a page from the manuscript of the properties of trees” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ca;Mus21;12;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: CA1 12
Seçili bibliyografya	Notes:[1] See Saliba, George and Komaroff, Linda, “Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the ‘Materia Medica’ of Dioscorides,”Ars Orientalis, 35 (2008): 8.[2] Ibid.[3] Ibid., 9.Bloom, Jonathan, “The introduction of Paper to the Islamic Lands and the development of the illustrated Manuscripts,”Muqarnas, 17 (2000): 17–23. ISBN: 9789004116696.D’Andiran, Gerald,Early Medicine, from the body to the Stars, Basel: Schwabe, 2011. ISBN: 9783796527098.Graves, Margaret S. et al. (eds),Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum: Arts of the Book & Calligraphy, Istanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, 2010: 200–05. ISBN: 9786054348084.Saliba, George and Komaroff, Linda “Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the ‘Materia Medica’ of Dioscorides,”Ars Orientalis, 35 (2008): 6–65.

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Rock Lotus: Sumulutun, page from the manuscript of the properties of trees

(اللوتس الصخري ، صفحة من مخطوطة خواص الأشجار)

Author The Greek Dioscorides, approximately 40-90

Author Original ديوسقوريدس الإغريقي ،تقريبا

Publication Date XIII century

Publication Place Iraq - Aga Khan Museum

Subject Opaque watercolour, ink and silver on paper

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 29.6 × 20 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID AKM7

Record ID object;EPM;ca;Mus21;12;ar

Library Location Aga Khan Museum

Date XIII century

Notes Dioscorides was born around 40 AD in Anzarbus in Cilicia (currently Turkey). He had a great influence on science and practical practice from the Middle Ages until the sixteenth century. His treatise Medicinal Plants was first translated into Syriac, a generally common language in the Abbasid Empire (750-1258). The first direct Arabic translation had a Greek version by two researchers, Istafan Ibn Basil and Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, in the middle of the ninth century in Baghdad under The reign of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil (r. 847-61). Ibn Ishaq was an Arab physician and scholar, a Nestorian Christian, and known as a teacher of translators. He was active in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. According to sources, in 948, the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I presented a copy of the Book of Medicinal Plants as a gift to the Umayyad Caliph in Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman III (912-961). There is no evidence to confirm that the complete Arabic translation of this copy was It took place in Cordoba. In subsequent years, both the Greek text and the accompanying drawings continued to be revised and new copies were made. The famous Arabic version was completed in the thirteenth century, which was repeatedly copied and distributed and is now distributed in many public and private collections, including the collection of the Aga Khan Museum. It is known as the Properties of Trees, which describes the manufacture of medicines from about 500-600 plants and animals such as fish, shellfish, and mineral materials that form the basis of pharmacology in the countries of the Near East and beyond.

Sample Text “Rock Lotus: Sumulutun, a page from the manuscript of the properties of trees” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ca;Mus21;12;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: CA1 12

Seçili bibliyografya Notes:[1] See Saliba, George and Komaroff, Linda, “Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the ‘Materia Medica’ of Dioscorides,”Ars Orientalis, 35 (2008): 8.[2] Ibid.[3] Ibid., 9.Bloom, Jonathan, “The introduction of Paper to the Islamic Lands and the development of the illustrated Manuscripts,”Muqarnas, 17 (2000): 17–23. ISBN: 9789004116696.D’Andiran, Gerald,Early Medicine, from the body to the Stars, Basel: Schwabe, 2011. ISBN: 9783796527098.Graves, Margaret S. et al. (eds),Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum: Arts of the Book & Calligraphy, Istanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, 2010: 200–05. ISBN: 9786054348084.Saliba, George and Komaroff, Linda “Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the ‘Materia Medica’ of Dioscorides,”Ars Orientalis, 35 (2008): 6–65.