Re: VMs: Arabic Herbal

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 07:09 04/04/03 -0700, Dana Scott wrote:
> The following references provide an example of an Arabic Herbal that may 
> have influenced the author of the VMS. Notice how the herbal illustrations 
> are drawn to the left side of the page and the text is written around the 
> drawing to the right. Unfortunately, you may need to copy the URL to your 
> web browser's address space to view the manuscript samples.

You'll probably need to go here first, to click on the Institute's disclaimer:

http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Exhibitions/OrderFromChaos/pages/Disclaimer.shtml

Then click on the fifth sub-link on the left ("Continuity"), and you should 
be there. :-)

I saw a good few reproductions of (probably) this same Arabic Dioscorides 
in the 15th Century hospital complex outside Edirne, in Northern Turkey... 
but I didn't know it had originally been copied in Baghdad.

How curious it would be if the VMS turns out to have been made in Iraq... 
(complete this thought however you wish). :-o    [*]

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

[*] but off-list, preferably. :-/

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