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What mandrakes look like in the movie & what they look like in Arabic & Persian copies of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica
(Bl Ms Or 3366, Baghdad 14th century)
(Bl Ms Or 3366, Baghdad 14th century)
(NY, NPL, Spencer Coll. Pers. ms. 39 fol 204, Iran, 19th century)
(Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Arab. d. 138, fol. 120r)
there also many illustrations of mandrakes in Latin and Greek manuscripts. Here is one in a 12th-century Latin ms (Harley MS 1585 fol. 57r)
see this blogpost "how to harvest a mandrake" for more: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/12/how-to-harvest-a-mandrake.html
