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Illustration from
An Arabic Translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides
by ‛Abdullah ibn al-Fadl, dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Iraq or Northern Jazira, possibly Baghdad
Swordsman
![Swordsman - Materia Medica of Dioscorides, an Arabic Translation](http://warfare.6te.net/13/img/Materia_Medica_of_Dioscorides-Swordsman.jpg)
Source: God's Warriors by Helen J. Nicholson & David Nicolle
Referenced on p35, God's Warriors, Knights Templar, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem by Helen Nicholson & David Nicolle:
A soldier with a turban and a straight sword, probably hung from a baldric rather than a belt.
He appears in a medical manuscript written in Iraq in AD 1224.
(Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 575121; photograph David Nicolle)
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