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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 28, 2019

De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.

Publication Details

Sansepolcro: Aboca Museum Edizioni, 2013 CE.

Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color.  Foreword by Mauro Giancaspro and Valentino Mercati. Essays by Paolo Caputo, Paolo De Luca, Roberto De Lucia, Roberto Romano and Manuela De Matteis Tortora, Hans Walter Lack, Pietro Baraldi, Paolo Bensi and Alessandro Menghini. Afterword by Alain Touwaide. 243 Modern botanical images by Luca Massenzio Palermo.

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Entry Number#10908
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13104
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLde-materia-medica-il-discoride-di-napoli-biblioteca-nazionale-di-napoli-ms-exvindobonense-greco-1-vivii-sec-d-c-2-vols

Geographic Context

Publication place: Sansepolcro

Mentioned in annotation: Naples