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Title

Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides

Other related names

• Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos, attributed name
• Galen, attributed name
• Isocrates, attributed name

Call number

Oversize LJS 62
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948546323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962733
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4854632

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Greek

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Eastern Mediterranean

Summary

Work on plants and their medicinal properties in 679 chapters, preceded by illustrations, a prologue, and a table of contents listing 697 chapters. The prologue attributes it to Dioscorides, Galen, and Isocrates; the work is very similar to the De materia medica of Dioscorides. With many notes added.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

121 leaves : 261 x 190 (210 x 130) mm. bound to 268 x 202 mm

Collation

Paper, 121; 1-2⁴ 3² 4⁸(-2) 5⁴ 6¹⁰ 7¹² 8²⁴(-1) 9¹⁰(-1) 10¹⁰(-4, outer 2 bifolia) 11⁸(-2) 12¹⁰(-2) 13⁸(-1) 14¹³(?) 15⁸(-2, central bifolium) 16¹; text of the herbal (f. 31-121) has early pagination in ink, 1-66, 69-90, 97-108, 113-114, 117-124, 127-146, 149-165, [v], 166-187, 192-199, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Possibly 17th-century Greek blind-stamped calf over pasteboards; some leaves detached or almost detached.

Layout

Written in 20-36 long lines.

Decoration

71 pen-and-wash drawings of medicinal plants (f. 1r-10v); pen-and-wash illustrations of Dioscorides and a companion collecting plants in bags (f. 1v) and Dioscorides and Galen (f. 4v); headings, captions, small initials, and large initials (sometimes with flourishes and extensions; for example, f. 82 (p. 117-118)) in red.

Script

Written in Greek cursive minuscule script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1996, lot 61, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Materia medica--Early works to 1800
• Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800
• Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Herbals
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Drawing
• Science
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Pen-and-wash drawings of medicinal plants and 2 drawings of Dioscorides, f. 1r
• fol. 11r — Prologue about plants and their medicinal virtues, f. 11r
• fol. 17r — Table of contents, f. 17r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Drawing, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illustration, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Drawing, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Drawing, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Drawing, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Drawing, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Drawing, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Illustration, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Drawing, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Drawing, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Drawing, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Drawing, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Drawing, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Drawing, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Drawing, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Drawing, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Drawing, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Drawing, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Drawing, f. 10v