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    Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ maḍārr al-sumūm al-muhlikah
    كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع مضار السموم المهلكة     Manuscript is a medical work on poisons and their antidotes, and discusses poisons from plants, animals, and minerals. It consists of 3 essays: the first begins with a table of contexts (fol.…
    • Contributor: Wasīm, ʻabbās - Ṣidqī, Muṣṭafá - Fikrī, Muḥammad - Ibn Al-Mubārak, Al-Ḥasan Ibn Abī Thaʻlab
    • Date: 1431
    • Resource: PDF - 260

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    The Complete Art of Medicine. Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah: al-maʻrūf bi-al-Malaki (The complete art of medicine) is the only known work by Ali Ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi (died 994), also known by his Latinized name, Haly Abbas. Al-Majusi…
    • Contributor: Majūsī, ʻalī Ibn Al-ʻabbās, 10th/11th Century
    • Date: 1437-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 1008

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    The Book of Kings. Shahnameh Baysonqori is a copy of Shahnameh (Book of kings) composed by the highly revered Iranian poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940--1020). The importance of Shahnameh in the Persian-speaking world is comparable that…
    • Contributor: Firdawsī, 940 - Ja'far, Persian Calligrapher, Active
    • Date: 1430-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 696

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    Ottheinrich Bible.
    Ottheinrich-Bibel     The Ottheinrich Bible is the earliest surviving illustrated manuscript of the New Testament in the German language. The work was commissioned around 1430 by Ludwig VII, the Bearded, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. The…
    • Contributor: Ludwig VII, Der Bärtige, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
    • Date: 1430-01-01
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    Book of Hours for Use in Paris: The Hours of René of Anjou.
    Horae ad usum Parisiensem     This book of hours was written around 1435-36 in the workshop of the Rohan Master in Paris for René of Anjou (1409-80), the second son of Louis II of Anjou. The portraits…
    • Contributor: Rohan Master, Active 15th Century
    • Date: 1435-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 317

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    The Bellifortis (Strong in War).
    Bellifortis     Many high- and late-medieval manuscripts about technology exist. Most, however, present only the texts without any illustrations. The Bellifortis (Strong in war), in contrast, is the first fully illustrated manual of military…
    • Contributor: Kyeser, Conrad,approximately 1405
    • Date: 1430-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 320

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    The Mensural Codex of Saint Emmeram. The mensural codex of the Benedictine monastery of Saint Emmeram in Ratisbon (present-day Regensburg) is one of the most important, if not the prime, source for the tradition of the international polyphony…
    • Contributor: Edlerawer, Hermann, Approximately 1395-Approximately 1460 - Volkhardt Von Häringen, Rudolf - Pötzlinger, Hermann, 1469 - Binchois, Gilles - Dufay, Guillaume - Dunstable, John
    • Date: 1435-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 332