- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.478
- Title
- Verbascum Plants (painting with text, recto and verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: De Materia Medica
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 1224
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iraq, Baghdad?
- Period
- Abbasid period
- Culture
- Arab
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216249
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs. old notes also have name of F.R. Martin
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.478
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Laurence Binyon and J. V. S. Wilkinson, Persian Miniature Painting: Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931, exh. cat., Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (London, England, 1933), p. 27, no. 14d
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Islamic Art, exh. cat. (San Francisco, 1937), p. 26, no. 22d
Max Meyerhof, Die literaturischen Grundlagen der arabischen Heilmittellehre, Ciba Zeitschrift (1942), vol. VIII, pp. 2957-92, p. 2968
Hugo Buchthal, Early Islamic Miniatures from Baghdad, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (1942), vol. V, pp. 19-36, p. 21, nos. 2-3, figs. 5-6
Max Meyerhof, The Background and Origins of Arabian Pharmacology, Ciba Symposium (1944), vol. VI, pp. 1847-56, p. 1855
Ernst Grube, Materialien zum Dioskurides Arabicus, Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst: Festschrift für Ernst Kühnel zum 75. Geburtstag am 26. 10. 1957, ed. Richard Ettinghausen (Berlin, 1959), p. 173, no. 4
Wilson Bishai, Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World, W.C. Brown Co. (Dubuque, Iowa, 1973), Pg. 102
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 9, 11, 15, 18-19, no. 2, ill.
Roche Products on the Market, brochure, F.Hoffman-La Roche & Co. (Cairo, November 1981)
- Exhibition History
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Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
Diverse are their Hues: Animals in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1984 - 02/09/1985
Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990
Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/14/2015
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
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