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TM 68728 / LDAB 10000 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/68728

also known as Vienna Dioscurides; Vienna Dioscorides; Juliana Anicia Codex

TM Gallery info The Vienna Dioscurides (TM 68728) is an early 6th century AD illustrated manuscript of De materia medica, a Greek scientific work, and also includes several other medico-biological compositions, both in poetry and in prose. Lavishly illustrated, the manuscript of 492 folios was created in Constantinople for a Byzantine princess and is therefore also called the Juliana Anicia Codex. The codex is now kept in Vienna because a Flemish diplomat in the service of the Austrian Habsburg emperor bought it from the physician of the Sultan, not too long after the fall of Byzantium.

Metadata

Date: before AD 512 - 513

Provenance: Byzantion (Istanbul) - Turkey (ThraciaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - ThraciaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek, drawing (paleography: biblical majuscule (main text), with pointed majuscule sloping (marginalia))

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (492 fol.); columns per page: 1

Content (beta!): literary text, Dioscurides + Nicander of Colophon + Galenus + Crateus: Materia medica with illustrations; theriaca; Gallienus and Crateus in the margins

Authors / works: Dioscurides Pedanius, De materia medica (direct attestation)
Nicander of Colophon, Theriaca (epitomized)
Galenus, Opus incertum (?) (quoted)
Nicander of Colophon, Alexipharmaka (epitomized)
Oppianus Anazarbensis, Halieutica: 03; 04; 05 (epitomized)

Culture & genre: literature, science — prose and poetry, botany, medicine (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Mazal, Der Wiener Dioskurides. Codex mediceus graecus 1 der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Mazal, Otto - 1998-1999) [default]

∙Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek 2 p. 37-41 (Hunger, Herbert / Kresten, Otto - 1969)

∙Buberl, Der Wiener Dioskurides und die Wiener Genesis (Buberl, Paul - 1937)

Photo: Facsimile edition J. de Karabacek, 1906; Der Wiener Dioskurides. Codex mediceus graecus 1 der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, mit Kommentar von O.Mazal, Graz 1998-1999; G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl.84; G. Cavallo - H.Maehler, Greek Bookhands, pl.25b; K. Weitzmann, Late antique and early christian book illumination, London 1977, pl. 1520 (colour); Scripta 9 (2016), p. 103

Script & book studies: H. Gerstinger, Dioscurides. Codex Vindobonensis med. gr. 1, Kommentarband zu der Faksimileausgabe, Graz 1970

Collections

→ Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Med. Gr. 1

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