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[Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tt4ft7r
Title: [Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides]
Name: Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos (attributed name), Galen (attributed name), Isocrates (attributed name)
Date: 1400
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Herbals (reference sources), Pen and wash drawings, Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Renaissance, Pictorial works, Illustrated works, manuscripts (documents)
Description: 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.
Extent: 121 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 261 x 190 (210 x 130) mm bound to 268 x 202 mm
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-10v: [Pen-and-wash drawings of medicinal plants and 2 drawings of Dioscorides], Table of contents: 2. f.11r-16r: [Prologue about plants and their medicinal virtues], Table of contents: 3. f.17r-30r: [Table of contents], Table of contents: 4. f.31r-121v: [Herbal], 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., Layout: Written in 20-36 long lines., Script: Written in Greek cursive minuscule script., 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., Binding: Possibly 17th-century Greek blind-stamped calf over pasteboards; some leaves detached or almost detached., Origin: Written in the eastern Mediterranean in the 15th century., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Greek.
Relation: Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333427, The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tt4ft7r, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs62.html
Subject: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800, Materia medica, Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800, Botany, Medical, Botany -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800, Botany
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 62
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., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948546323503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3tt4ft7r/manifest

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