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    The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De...
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    original text than the Naples Dioscurides. It also predates the Naples Dioscurides by one hundred years. The Vienna Dioscurides retains descriptions of animal...
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    great-grandfather, Theodosius II, in the early 5th century. The Naples Dioscurides and Morgan Dioscurides are somewhat later Byzantine manuscripts in Greek, while other...
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    a feature of many notable books on plants, of which a few include Vienna Dioscurides, Flora Graeca, The Banksias, and The Cactaceae. Curtis's Botanical...
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    medica survive. The most famous of these is the lavishly illustrated Vienna Dioscurides, produced in Constantinople in 512/513 AD. Densely illustrated Arabic...
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    which has been positively identified via the illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides as the wild carrot Daucus gingidium. Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller...
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    great Church of St Polyeuctus in Constantinople, and owner of the Vienna Dioscurides. She was the daughter of the Roman emperor Olybrius (r. 472) and his...
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  • description of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc Vienna Codex (Hungarian) (1450) Vienna Codex (Aztec) Vienna Dioscurides, an early 6th-century illuminated manuscript...
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    of Paris, 6th-7th century, much missing Vienna Dioscurides, early 6th-century medical text Naples Dioscurides, 7th century Paris Gregory, c. 880, a gift...
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    Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 March 2008. "Byzantine Medicine – Vienna Dioscurides". Antiqua Medicina. University of Virginia. Archived from the original...
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  • The first page of Vienna Dioscurides depicts a peacock, made in the 6th century...
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    late antiquity, and the portrait in the 6th-century manuscript the Vienna Dioscurides may well reflect a long-established classical tradition, just as the...
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    Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, AD 512...
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    eventually spread to the rest of Europe. The illuminated manuscript Vienna Dioscurides (6th century), and the works of Byzantine doctors such as Paul of...
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    every literate culture. Notable items in the collection include the Vienna Dioscurides, which was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register...
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    Page from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides, an illuminated version of the 1st-century De Materia Medica...
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    memory of Crateuas. Dioscurides 1907, Cod. Vindobonensis med. gr. 1, fol. 3v. Der Wiener Dioskurides (1998), p. 18. Dioscurides 1907, Cod. Vindobonensis...
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    miniatures of the Cotton Genesis, and the best of the miniatures of the Vienna Dioscurides testify; and in the miniatures of the later Byzantine manuscripts...
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    Blackberry from the sixth-century Vienna Dioscurides manuscript...
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    A group of physicians in an image from the Vienna Dioscurides, named after the physician Galen shown at the top centre....
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  • naturalistic drawing of the first or second century CE, redrawn for the Vienna Dioscurides made for Julia Anicia. Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English...
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    Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, 512 AD...
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    Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, c. 512 CE...
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    The Vienna Dioscurides, an early 6th-century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek, a rare example of a late antique scientific...
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  • Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, 512 AD...
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    A group of physicians in an image from the Vienna Dioscurides; Galen is depicted top center....
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    knowledge. Arguably, the first Byzantine physician was the author of the Vienna Dioscurides manuscript, created circa 515 AD for the daughter of Emperor Olybrius...
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    illustrations closely reflect those in the Vienna Dioscurides. Many of the illustrations in the Morgan Dioscurides resemble those in the Juliana Anicia Codex...
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    (established in 1348), Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1364), University of Vienna (1365), Heidelberg University (1386) and University of Greifswald (1456)...
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    the book it is in is a codex. One of three author portraits in the Vienna Dioscurides of the 1st-century physician author. He is painting a plant held by...
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