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Metadata

DS ID:

DS746

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 62

Title:

Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides.

Herbal

Place:

Eastern Mediterranean

Eastern Mediterranean Linked Data indicator

TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Greek

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 121 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 261 x 190 (210 x 130) mm bound to 268 x 202 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in the eastern Mediterranean in the 15th century.
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.
Binding: Possibly 17th-century Greek blind-stamped calf over pasteboards; some leaves detached or almost detached.
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.
Layout: Written in 20-36 long lines.
Ms. codex.
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.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Illustrated works

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Pictorial works

herbals (reference sources)

pen and wash drawings

Botany, Medical

Botany

Materia medica

Early works