1 gen 515 anni - Vienna Dioscurides
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An early 6th-century Byzantine illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text. The 491 vellum folios 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 in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire's capital, Constantinople, for a resident Roman imperial princess, Anicia Juliana, the daughter of Anicius Olybrius, one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors. Although it was originally created as a luxury copy, in later centuries it was used daily as a textbook in the imperial hospital of Constantinople. The manuscript has 383 extant full-page illustrations of plants out of the original 435 illustrations. The illustrations fall into two groups. There are those that faithfully follow earlier classical models and present a quite naturalistic illustration of each plant. There are also other illustrations that are more abstract. The majority of the illustrations were painted in a naturalistic style so as to aid a pharmacologist in the recognition of each plant. However, it is believed that these illustrations were made as copies of an earlier herbal and were not drawn from nature.
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