Salamanca, Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca, MS 2659

Salamanca Dioscorides Facsimile Edition

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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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De materia medica [Facsímil del ms. 2659 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca]

Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2005

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Battaner Arias, Enrique; Martínez Manzano, Teresa; Becedas González, Margarita; Cortés Gabaudan, Francisco; Esteller Pérez, Alejandro; Fermoso, Julio
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Salamanca Dioscorides: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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