Naples Dioscurides

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dioscurides Neapolitanus; Naples Dioscurides; Dioscoride de Naples.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Ms. ex Vindob. gr. 1.
FACSIMILE EDITION
Dioscurides Neapolitanus: Salerno Editrice (Roma, 1988). Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document: the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding corresponds to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 480 copies. Commentary (by Cavallo Guglielmo, Lilla Salvatore, Orofino Giulia, Bertelli Carlo). Slipcase. Facsimile in co-edition with ADEVA (Graz, 1998).
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Naples Dioscurides

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dioscurides Neapolitanus; Naples Dioscurides; Dioscoride de Naples.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Ms. ex Vindob. gr. 1.
FACSIMILE EDITION
Dioscurides Neapolitanus: Salerno Editrice (Roma, 1988). Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document: the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding corresponds to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 480 copies. Commentary (by Cavallo Guglielmo, Lilla Salvatore, Orofino Giulia, Bertelli Carlo). Slipcase. Facsimile in co-edition with ADEVA (Graz, 1998).
Copyright photos: Salerno Editrice

Category:
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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