Q130285392
Artist	Arabischer Maler des Kräuterbuchs des Dioskurides
Title	German: De Materia Medica (Das Kräuterbuch) des Dioskurides, arabische Manuskriptabschrift des griechischen Textes, Szene: Dioskurides und ein Schüler title QS:P1476,de:"De Materia Medica (Das Kräuterbuch) des Dioskurides, arabische Manuskriptabschrift des griechischen Textes, Szene: Dioskurides und ein Schüler" label QS:Lde,"De Materia Medica (Das Kräuterbuch) des Dioskurides, arabische Manuskriptabschrift des griechischen Textes, Szene: Dioskurides und ein Schüler"
Object type	painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date	1229 date QS:P571,+1229-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	color on paper
Dimensions	height: 19.2 cm (7.5 in); width: 14 cm (5.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,19.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,14U174728
Collection	Topkapı Palace Museum   Parent institution Directorate of National Palaces  Location Topkapı Palace , Turkey Established 3 April 1924  Authority file : Q64682290 VIAF: 134703353 ISNI: 0000000121824883 ULAN: 500300600 LCCN: n50075577 GND: 801347-0 WorldCat
Current location	Istanbul
Notes	illumination
Source/Photographer	The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
Permission (Reusing this file)	[1]

manners. The inhabitants of this part of Arabia nearly all belong to the race of Himyar. Their complexion is almost as black as that of the Abyssinians; their bodies are very finely formed, with slender, yet strong limbs; their faces are Semitic, noses generally aquiline, eyes full of fire, lips small, and mouths of very diminutive pro-portions. They are generally thin, and never fat; they have little or no beard, their hair is long, but curly, not woolly. turban. The women have a skirt and sort of shawl. In the chily from to wait dira no she of siami. western district they also wear black trowsers, and in the towns a bit of cotton all over the face, without holes for the eyes. Their only luxuries are their weapons, the long musket with the two powder-horns, and the Janbiyyah, a sort of dagger richly-ornamented with silver. Some also wear the straight sword called Nemusha.

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