FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 290 x 250 mm, 344 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy (probably).
CHRONOLOGY – 7th century.
FORMER OWNERS – Demetrios Chalkokondyles; Aulo Giano Parrasio; Girolamo Carbone; Antonio Seripando; House of Habsburg; Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.
GENRE – Treatises / Secular books; Medicine / Botany.
CONTENTS – The manuscript contains the herbarium of the De Materia Medica, written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, at the time of Nero. To each known medicinal plant correspond a comment, a description of the habitat, and the therapeutic use.
LANGUAGE – Greek.
SCRIPT – Biblical Majuscule.
DECORATION – 170 illuminated pages.
STYLE – Byzantine.
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