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Kitab al-Abniya to Haqayiq al-adwiya ["The principles of the real character of medicinal plants"]. (Rawdat al-wa Us Manfaat al-nafs)[ By] Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali al-Hirawi. 5th AH Century. Facsimile Copy of the original manuscript AF 340. Austrian National Library, Vienna. Transcribed by Alī bin Ahmad Asadī Tūsī. Copied 447 Hijri. Persian Introduction: Iraj Afshar and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi. English Introduction: Bert G. Fragner / Nosratollah Rastegar, Karl Holubar, Eva Irblich and Mahmoud Omidsalar.

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Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2009 CE.

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Publication place: Vienna