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Fall 2017
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Medieval Studies
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Porter, D. (2017, October 01). University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 278 - Kitāb-i ḥashāʼish (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/89

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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 278 - Kitāb-i ḥashāʼish. Written by Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos in Deccan, India, A.H. 1004 (1595), in Persian.
An illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions in multiple languages (but all written in the Persian nastaʻlīq script) of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals.