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Morgan Dioscurides

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The Morgan Dioscurides (Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 652) is a 10th century Byzantine illuminated copy of the De Materia Medica by Dioscurides. The illustrations closely reflect those in the Vienna Dioscurides.

References

  • Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.

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