The Salamanca Dioscorides is an illuminated manuscript of De materia medica, an herbal text by the ancient Greek physician Dioscorides, a prominent writer on medical plants. The manuscript, which originated in Italy in the late fifteenth century, also includes related texts on medicine and is noteworthy for including paraphrases from the work of the ancient Greek physician Galan, some in the margins of the Dioscrorides text. It boasts hundreds of marginal vignettes illustrating plants, some with captions and annotations to help readers identify them.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Salamanca Dioscorides": De materia medica [Facsímil del ms. 2659 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca] facsimile edition, published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2005
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