Folio from an Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, 1224. This page is one of about thirty folios, now dispersed among various public and private collections, originally belonging to a codex in the Suleymaniye Library, Aya Sofya, Istanbul. The manuscript, of which the major part is still in Istanbul, contains a colophon giving the name of the scribe -- who may also have been the painter, Abd Allah ibn al-Fadi -- and the date, Rajab 621 (June-July, 1224).