A COMPLETE COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOTANICAL-PHARMACOLOGI...

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£30,000

A COMPLETE COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOTANICAL-PHARMACOLOGICAL BOOK BY IBN AL-BAYTAR (D.646AH/1248AD), ANDALUSIA Kitab Al-Jami Li-Mufradati ‘L Adviya Wa’l Agziyya
Dated 977AH/ 1569AD
Written in Mecca al-Sharif

Arabic manuscript on paper,220 leaves, 37 lines of black and red Arabic calligraphy, marginal commentaries, some seals

Includes the Arabic, Latin, Berber and Persian names of each drug. This precious book has become the primary source of Muslim physicians and pharmacists since the time it was written. It became known in Europe with the French scientist Lucien Leclerc’s three volume translation into French. (Paris 1877-1883)
The orginal copy had presented to King of Ayyubids Al-Malik al-Salih Ayyub