Dioscurides graeco-latinus
Subtitle: (Vat. Chigi F. VII. 159)
Publisher: Biblioteca Apostólica Vaticana; Testimonio Compañía Editorial
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ciudad del Vaticano; Madrid
Language: grc; lat
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9788488829719
Subjects: Facsimiles; Illustrations; Early works to 1800; Herbals; Manuscripts; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana; De materia medica (Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos)
Other titles: Dioscórides greco-latino; Pope Alexander VII Greek-Latin Dioscorides; Greek Dioscorides; Dioscórides grecolatino del Papa Alejandro VII :
Notes: Title from printed slip tipped to inside back cover.

Leaves printed on both sides.

"This manuscript came from the fine personal library of Cardinal Fabio Chigi, who took the name of Alexander VII [whose coat of arms is depicted on the cover in gold embossing] on his election as Pope (1655-1667), and it is now conserved in the Apostolic Library in the Vatican (Chig. F.VII.1590)."--Facsimile Finder website, https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/greek-dioscorides-facsimile, (viewed July 8, 2019).

"[The  manuscript] contains the pharmacopoea which was universally used in the Greek, Roman and Arab worlds from the second century AD until modern times and known as a Dioscorides, after Pedacius Dioscorides Anazarbeus, a Greek doctor in the service of the Roman legions. In his "De Materia Medica", he listed 600 plants, 90 minerals and 30 animal products, with a drawing of each one and a note of its therapeutic properties."--Facsimile Finder website, https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/greek-dioscorides-facsimile, (viewed July 8, 2019).

"The manuscript of the so-called Dioscorides Greaco-Latinus, also known as the Greek Dioscorides, is a significant work lying somewhere between botany and medicine from the famous library of Pope Alexander VII. The Dioscorides is based on an ancient manuscript from the first century after Christ and is named after its author, the Greek physician Pedanios Dioscorides Anazarbeus. This was considered to be the fundamental text concerning the effects and applications of efficacious plants and substances."--Ziereis Facsimiles website, https://www.ziereisfacsimiles.com/greek-dioscorides (viewed July 8, 2019).

"The manuscript was originally conceived as a series of drawings only, with no explanatory text. It was compiled, using alphabetical order, around the middle of the 15th century, in the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Constantinople, and was modelled on a famous Dioscorides which had been given in 512 to Juliana Anisia, daughter of the emperor Anisius Olibira and Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III; it is now conserved in Vienna. A religious in the Monastery of St. Demetrius, called Isidore Ruthenus, was charged with writing in the Greek names of the plants in very small letters on the tops of the folios. Five other hands, two Greek and then later, after the codex came to Italy, three Latin, added other names for the plants in Greek, Latin and also some Romance languages."--Facsimile Finder website, https://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/greek-dioscorides-facsimile, (viewed July 8, 2019).

Facsimile of a series of illustrations compiled during the 15th century in the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Constantinople[Istanbul, Turkey] with names of the subjects added in Greek by Isidore Ruthenus and later in Greek, Latin, and some other languages by five other hands; cf. Testimonio Compañía's WWW site "Dioscorides Greco-Latino."

Edition of 980 copies; 1-900 numbered in Arabic numerals, and 80 in Roman numerals.

On parchment, except for the index.

Commentary volume published in 2001 has title: El Dioscórides grecolatino del Papa Alejandro VII : manuscrito Vat. Chigi 53 (F. VII 159).

Lib. copy number 272 of 900 copies.

Lib. copy commentary volume  El Dioscórides grecolatino del Papa Alejandro VII : manuscrito Vat. Chigi 53 (F. VII 159) (published 2001) is on separate record.