The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is a single leaf from a dispersed manuscript (Aya Sofya 3703, later Top Kapi Seray 2147) of the Arabic version of De materia medica by Dioscorides (fl. ca. 65 CE) that was copied in 621 AH / 1224 CE in Baghdad. Approximately thirty illustrations were removed from this parent manuscript that are now in public and private collections. The Walters' leaf depicts two doctors preparing medicine. A funnel is set on a tripod over a vessel. The two men preparing the medicinal draught stand on either side of the tripod beside two fruit trees. The text is written in partially vocalized naskh script in brownish-black and red ink.
Written in partially vocalized naskh script in brownish-black and red ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Anet, Claude. "Exhibition of Persian Miniatures at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris I." Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 22, no. 115 (1912), fig. a.
Dimand, M. S. "Dated Specimens of Mohammedan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Part II." Metropolitan Museum Studies 1, no. 2 (1929): 208-232.
Exhibition of Islamic Art at the de Young Museum, February 24 to March 22, 1937. Exhibition catalog. (San Francisco: de Young Museum, 1937), 26; nos. 19-22; fig. 19.
Buchthal, Hugo, Otto Kurz, and Richard Ettinghausen. "Supplementary Notes to K. Holter's Checklist of Islamic Illuminated Manuscripts before A.D. 1350." Ars Islamica 7, no. 2 (1940): 147-164.
Buchthal, Hugo. "Early Islamic Miniatures from Baghdad." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 5 (1942): 21, fig. 1; 24.
Day, Florence E. "The Mesopotamian Manuscripts of Dioscorides." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series 8, no. 9 (1950): 274-280.
Grube, E. J. "Materialien zum Dioskurides Arabicus." In Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst. Festschrift für Ernst Kühnel zum 75. Geburtstag am 26. 10. 1957. Richard Ettinghausen, ed. (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959), 176.
Grube, Ernst J. and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 2-4.
Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1975.
Touwaide, Alain. Farmacopea araba medievale: codice Ayasofia 3703. 4 vols. Milan: Antea Edizioni, 1992-93, 4:58, fig. 26.
Rogers, Michael J. "Text and Illustrations: Dioscorides and the Illustrated Herbal in the Arab Tradition." In Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Anna Contadini, ed. (Boson: Brill, 2007), 41-47.
Carey, Moya. "Al-Sufi and Son: Ibn al-Sufi's Poem on the Stars and its Prose Parent." Muqarnas 26 (2009): 183-204.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Baghdad
[Rajab 621 AH / 1224 CE]
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Copied in Baghdad in 621 AH / 1224 CE
Library of Aya Sofya, Istanbul, no. 3703
Removed from manuscript no. 3703, likely late 19th-early 20th century
Acquired by Fredrik Robert Martin
Acquired by Max Williams
Acquired by Dikran Kelekian
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Baghdad
[Rajab 621 AH / 1224 CE]
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Copied in Baghdad in 621 AH / 1224 CE
Library of Aya Sofya, Istanbul, no. 3703
Removed from manuscript no. 3703, likely late 19th-early 20th century
Acquired by Fredrik Robert Martin
Acquired by Max Williams
Acquired by Dikran Kelekian
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is a single leaf from a dispersed manuscript (Aya Sofya 3703, later Top Kapi Seray 2147) of the Arabic version of De materia medica by Dioscorides (fl. ca. 65 CE) that was copied in 621 AH / 1224 CE in Baghdad. Approximately thirty illustrations were removed from this parent manuscript that are now in public and private collections. The Walters' leaf depicts two doctors preparing medicine. A funnel is set on a tripod over a vessel. The two men preparing the medicinal draught stand on either side of the tripod beside two fruit trees. The text is written in partially vocalized naskh script in brownish-black and red ink.
Written in partially vocalized naskh script in brownish-black and red ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Mednyanszky, Orsolya
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Anet, Claude. "Exhibition of Persian Miniatures at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris I." Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 22, no. 115 (1912), fig. a.
Dimand, M. S. "Dated Specimens of Mohammedan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Part II." Metropolitan Museum Studies 1, no. 2 (1929): 208-232.
Exhibition of Islamic Art at the de Young Museum, February 24 to March 22, 1937. Exhibition catalog. (San Francisco: de Young Museum, 1937), 26; nos. 19-22; fig. 19.
Buchthal, Hugo, Otto Kurz, and Richard Ettinghausen. "Supplementary Notes to K. Holter's Checklist of Islamic Illuminated Manuscripts before A.D. 1350." Ars Islamica 7, no. 2 (1940): 147-164.
Buchthal, Hugo. "Early Islamic Miniatures from Baghdad." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 5 (1942): 21, fig. 1; 24.
Day, Florence E. "The Mesopotamian Manuscripts of Dioscorides." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series 8, no. 9 (1950): 274-280.
Grube, E. J. "Materialien zum Dioskurides Arabicus." In Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst. Festschrift für Ernst Kühnel zum 75. Geburtstag am 26. 10. 1957. Richard Ettinghausen, ed. (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959), 176.
Grube, Ernst J. and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 2-4.
Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1975.
Touwaide, Alain. Farmacopea araba medievale: codice Ayasofia 3703. 4 vols. Milan: Antea Edizioni, 1992-93, 4:58, fig. 26.
Rogers, Michael J. "Text and Illustrations: Dioscorides and the Illustrated Herbal in the Arab Tradition." In Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Anna Contadini, ed. (Boson: Brill, 2007), 41-47.
Carey, Moya. "Al-Sufi and Son: Ibn al-Sufi's Poem on the Stars and its Prose Parent." Muqarnas 26 (2009): 183-204.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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