Middle Eastern medical manuscript proves to be £70,000 saleroom cure

Said to date from the 12th-14th century, an incomplete and dampstained Middle Eastern medical manuscript sold for £70,000 at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) on February 22.

What it presented was just part of Book III of what is familiarly known in English as the ‘Canon o…

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