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The Morgan Dioscorides (De Materia Medica)

mid 10th century (c. 950)Constantinople, Byzantine Empire

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A mid-tenth-century manuscript of Dioscorides’ De materia medica made in Constantinople (modern Istanbul). This is a medical and natural-history work, rather than a Western moralized bestiary.

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