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Preparing Medicine from Honey

تحضير دواء من العسل

"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of D; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 57.51.21.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Overview

A page from a dispersed manuscript dated 621 AH / 1224 CE on preparing a medicine from honey, Iraq; one of the rare scenes of Abbasid pharmacy. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Preparing Medicine from Honey”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/dawa-asal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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