This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the "Carrara Herbal" (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the thirteenth-century pharmacopeia by Ibn Sar b, an Arabic-speaking Christian physician working in al-Andalus known in the West as Serapion the Younger. By 1290, Serapion s treatise was available in Latin translation and circulated widely in medical schools across the Italian peninsula....