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Collection of texts on the calendar

A compilatory manuscript filled with diagrams and notes on astrology and a few different calendars. There are multiple contributors to this collection…

Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides

This 15th-century illuminated manuscript is very similar to Dioscorides of Anazarbus’ Late Antique pharmacology manuscript De Materia Medica, which…

Pros mathēmatikous (Against The Professors)

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Russia, Isidore of Kiev, copied the second century Pros mathēmatikous (Against the Professors) originally written by…

Manuscript of Paulus Aegineta Medical Compendium in Seven Books

This is a single leaf of a paper manuscript from a 15th-century copy of surgeon Paulus Aegineta’s Medical Compendium in Seven Books, a medical text…

Mathematical Tables

The mathematical tables pictured here are most likely from a Christian community and school in Fayyum, Egypt during the 6th or 7th century. The…