The Morgan Dioscorides (Constantinople, c. 950)
Byzantine Marsh Frog
Themes & interpretation: Modern character interpretation; no fixed historical meaning established
The Morgan catalogue identifies a frog on folio 318v of its tenth-century Dioscorides manuscript, made in Constantinople. The accompanying Greek inscription names the animal. It belongs to a medical text; identifying a modern frog species or assigning it a fixed symbolic meaning would go beyond the evidence.
Sources & Provenance
Illustrationf. 318v
Frog, Morgan MS M.652, f. 318v.
Related manuscriptf. 318v
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