510–519
1 entries with publication dates in this decade.
c. 512 CE
#6816
Vienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
The oldest surviving copy of Pedanius Dioscorides's treatise on medical botany and pharmacology, De materia medica, is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript produced about 512 CE. Dioscorides, a Greek physician, who may…