Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi

Manuscript of c. 1400 of an Arabic treatise on physiognomy, the art of reading character and fate from the body, by the geographer-scholar al-Dimashqi (1256/7-1327). A unique handwritten medieval copy preserved in NLM's Arabic collection. Digitized by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (public domain).

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