Dec 2, 2017
1: Plantago major, 2: Daphnoides, 3: Crocus sativus, 4: Phyllitis hemionitis by Gherardo Cibo for an edition of De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, c. 1564-1584.
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1: Plantago major, 2: Daphnoides, 3: Crocus sativus, 4: Phyllitis hemionitis by Gherardo Cibo for an edition of De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, c. 1564-1584.
Coral - Pedanius Dioscorides from The Vienna Dioscorides
At first I thought this might be depicting fennel, because Pliny the Elder wrote about snakes needing to rejuvenate themselves with fennel juice-- but maybe it’s just a drawing of two snakes enjoying a romantic dinner of... whatever the plant might be.
Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn, and you can download an ebook version here.
If those folks on fol. 4v of LJS 62 are Dioscorides and Galen, then these folks on fol. 1v are also Dioscorides and Galen! Dioscorides and Galen, just straight up gathering plants in complementary outfits with their matching gathering bags.
Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn, and you can download an ebook version here.
Illustrations of plants from LJS 278, Kitāb-i ḥashāʼish (a translation of De Materia Medica), an illustrated herbal by Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbos. The manuscript has detailed descriptions in multiple languages (but all written in the Persian nastaʻlīq script) of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals. The manuscript is not complete: it comprises text and illustrations from parts of Chapter 1, substantial parts of Chapters 2-4, and parts of Chapter 5. Many leaves have extensive repairs at the edges or corners. The manuscript seems never to have been bound. It was written in Deccan, India (attributed by Simon Digby, linguist and historian of India), in Muharram A.H. 1004 (September 1595).
Manuscript description and digital images: http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/LJSchoenbergManuscripts/html/ljs278.html
Pedanius Dioscorides // De Materia Medica