Art and Artifice in the Illustrated Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī
391 views · Published 11 January 2013 · 27:24 · Indexed 28 September 2026
Channel: The Met · 2013 · Film & Animation
Jaclynne J. Kerner Assistant Professor of Art History State University of New York at New Paltz William Osler, the renowned Canadian-born physician, professor of medicine, and bibliophile, purchased a pair of densely illustrated, thirteenth-century Arabic herbals in 1912. A century later, the manuscripts' story is still unfolding.
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