black and red water colours

Egypt
9th Century
Source: Sezgin, Fuat (2010). Science and Technology in Islam, Volume IV: Catalogue of the Collection of Instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften.
Recipe Details

Evidence

"Five illustrations of the eye, three of them identical, adorn the manuscript; these are painted in black and red water colours"

Remarks

The text describes illustrations found in a Cairo manuscript (Dār al-Kutub al-Qaumīya, ms. Taimūr, tibb 100) dating to the 3rd/9th century. These are considered some of the earliest known medical illustrations in Arabic literature (p. 9).

Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorBlack
RegionEgypt
Approx. Year850
Source Information
TitleScience and Technology in Islam, Volume IV
AuthorSezgin, Fuat
CollectionCairo manuscript of the well-known «Ten Treatises on the Eye» by Ḥunain b. Isḥāq
Language
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