The Vienna Dioscorides

The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek.It contain more than 400 pictures of animals and plants, most done in a naturalistic style. Read more here

Birds

Coral - Pedanius Dioscorides

Author portraits from the Vienna Dioscurides -

Seated Dioscorides writing...

Pimpernel

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