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  • Shuster (?), Iran: doorway of a shop with two older men in turbans seated next to baskets of produce. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • Iran: a roadway leading towards a town with a decorative mosque (?); barefooted townspeople on the road. Photograph (by William Morgan Shuster ?), 1910/1920 (?).
  • Danae racemosa (L.) Moench Asparagaceae. Alexandrian or Poet's laurel. Distribution: Turkey to Iran. A monotypic genus with supreme adaptation to dry conditions, bearing its flowers and fruits on phylloclades, leaf like expanded stems. The phylloclades are too thick for sunlight to pass through so have chlorophyll containing cells on both sides (the cells in the middle do not) and stomata on both sides to facilitate CO2 diffusion into the plant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Islamic map of the world. The north is at the bottom, with the west to the right surrounded by unknown seas. The Indian Ocean, with the Red Sea, is on the left, with China, India and Iran in boxes to the right. The other sea shown is the Mediterranean next to which is a black square indicating Rome and a circle Constantinople. The Nile flows from the Mediterranean to the east and into the north then turn east and head towards a large circle indicating its source in Africa.
  • Acanthus dioscoridis L. Acanthaceae. Distribution: Iran, Iraq, southern Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, 1st century Greek physician and herbalist whose book, De Materia Medica, was the main source of herbal medicinal information for the next 1,600 years. He describes some 500 plants and their medicinal properties. His manuscript was copied and annotated over the centuries, and the earliest Greek text in existence is the illustrated Juliana Anicia Codex dated 512CE (Beck, 2005). The first English translation was made around 1650 by John Goodyear and published by Robert T. Gunther in 1934
  • The parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
  • A crocodile, a gigantic fish and an animal that eats flying fish. Gouache painting.
  • Two spotted divs, one of them with two heads. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, possibly Indian ca. 1650 (?).
  • The fire ordeal of Prince Siyavash. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Persian man stands alongside a div (demon). Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1750 (?).
  • A pair of fabulous creatures, human in appearance but with the heads of animals. Gouache painting by an Persian artist, ca. 1600 (?).
  • A camel carrying two large watermelons is lead along by a man dressed in yellow. Gouache painting by a Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • A Persian hero (Iskandar?) on horseback, shoots an arrow at the simurgh (phoenix). Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • Four pink mythical beasts, composites of human bodies with wings, horses' heads and elephants' trunks. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • A pair of fabulous creatures, human in appearance but with no necks and with black and white patterns over their bodies. Gouache painting by an Persian artist, ca. 1600(?).
  • A Persian man beats a div (demon) with a stick. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1750 (?).
  • The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • The viscera and the venous system. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Leo, the lion. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • The viscera with a foetus in utero. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • Viscera and arteries. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.
  • A lion and a leopard (?). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist.
  • The twelve astrological signs of the zodiac. Gouache paintings by an Persian artist, 18--(?).
  • Signs of the zodiac: Gemini, twins. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • An uncle visiting Majnun and Layla in the desert, from the story Layla and Majnun by Nizami, a 12th century Iranian poet. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Aquarius, the water carrier. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Mezed, the 7th Caliph of Arabia, in his court, watching Shamar raising his sword at the Imam. Gouache painting by an Persian painter.
  • A scientific or astronomical diagram . Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • Bones of the human body. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist.