Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
Variant namesThe Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important example of a late antique scientific text. The 491 vellum folios measure 37 by 30 cm and contain more than 400 pictures of animals and plants, most done in a naturalistic style. The manuscript was created in about 515 and was made for the Byzantine princess Juliana Anicia, the daughter of Emperor Anicius Olybrius. Although it was originally created as a luxury copy, there is some indication that in later centuries it was used daily as a hospital textbook. It includes some annotations in Arabic. The manuscript was discovered in Instanbul in the 1560s by the Flemish diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq who was in the employ of Emperor Ferdinand I. The Emperor bought the manuscript and it is now held in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.
From the description of Facsimile of the author portrait of Dioscorides in the Juliana Anicia Codex (or Vienna Dioscorides). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865928
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| Botany, Medical |
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| Manuscripts, Greek |
| Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) |
| Manuscripts, Italian |
| Materia medica |
| Materia medica |
| Medicine, Greek and Roman |
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Birth 0040
Death 0090
Greeks
Greek, Ancient (to 1453),
Italian
