historiaestmagistravitae:

The Naples Dioscorides

Circa 625

Art and Artifice in the Illustrated Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī

For more information see the Ghafiqi Project

simyart:

Persian anatomical manuscript by belgrade18 on Flickr.

heaveninawildflower:

Goat and Camel plus three toads taken from ‘The Tudor Pattern Book’. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1504.

Between circa 1520 and 1530.

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Wikimedia

heaveninawildflower:

Plant study taken from Vienna Dioscurides. The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text. The 491 vellum folios measure 37 by 30 cm and contain more than 400 pictures of animals and plants, most done in a naturalistic style. ( Text source - Wikipedia)

Picture source - Wikimedia

petitcabinetdecuriosites:

Folio from a Mu’nis al-Abrar fi Deqa’iq al-Ash’ar; top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers (via Arts of the Islamic World | Folio from a Mu’nis al-Abrar fi Deqa’iq al-Ash’ar; top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers | F1946.14)

(via dendroica)

patrisick:

Estoy flipando con la Biblioteca Digital Mundial, seriamente.

collective-history:

The Timbuktu Manuscripts showing both mathematics and astronomy, a heritage of Astronomy in medieval Islam.

“The Ahmed Baba centre has been digitizing hundreds of texts in order to preserve the knowledge they carry and to share it online. Many intellectuals both in Mali and abroad are now worried about the fate of manuscripts which might not be considered in line with Islamic law by the militants”

Mali Islamists announce plans to keep destroying Timbuktu

Timbuktu’s Sidi Yahia mosque ‘attacked by Mali militants’

(via collectivehistory)

archaeologicalnews:

One of Canada’s “fundamental documents” — a 335-year-old, lavishly illustrated manuscript describing the First Nations, wildlife and geography of the country at the dawn of European settlement — will finally be published in book form this month, giving unprecedented exposure to a historic…