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Notes on the Introduction and Colophon of the Leiden Manuscript of Dioscorides' ‘De Materia Medica’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Mahmoud M. Sadek
Mahmoud M. Sadek
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University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
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In the course of studying all surviving copies of Arabic Dioscorides manuscripts I have come across some interesting statements in the introduction and colophon of a Leiden manuscript of De Materia Medica. This manuscript belongs to the Warner Collection or Legatum Warnerium of the Library of the University of Leiden, Cod. Or. 289. This vast and valuable collection of oriental manuscripts was acquired by Levinus Warner in the early seventeenth century during his term of appointment as Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman court in Istanbul. The collection was given to the university upon the death of Mr. Warner in 1665.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 345 - 354
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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