EditorialMourning the death of Layla's husband, Ibn Salam. Khamsa. ('Five Poems'), by Nizami. Herat, 1494-1495. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or. 6810, f.135v. Language: Persian.
EditorialMourning the death of Layla's husband, Ibn Salam. Khamsa. ('Five Poems'), by Nizami. Herat, 1494-1495. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or. 6810, f.135v. Language: Persian.
EditorialCopaiba, rashed tree or salam tree, Copaifera langsdorffii. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialSalam tree, Acacia ehrenbergiana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Uni...