1971.95.1: Struchnos Plants (painting with text, recto and verso), from a De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1971.95.1

Title

Struchnos Plants (painting with text, recto and verso), from a 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/216276

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions

folio: 32.6 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

R.M. Reifstahl, Purchased by Friends of the Fogg. formerly on loan to the Fogg as 106.1958

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund

Accession Year

1971

Object Number

1971.95.1

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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), no. 10, figs. 3, 4
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 15, 112, no. 44
• Roche Products on the Market, brochure, F.Hoffman-La Roche & Co. (Cairo, November 1981)
• Ernst Grube, Studies in Islamic Painting, The Pindar Press (London, England, 1995), pp.136-137/figs.3&4

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/17/2017 - 05/08/2017

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