Live auction - Lot 1030
Live auction - Lot 1030
[Facsimile]
Dioscurides. Cod. Vind. gr. 1 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.
(Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965-1970)
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Lot description
Lge 4to + 1 vol. folio (Commentary).
Publ. light brown sheep over wood, blind-stamped title on front cover, spine with raised bands (sl. scratches). Commentary: half publ. leather imitating pigskin, paper covers, front cover titled, flat spine.
Complete colour facsimile edition of the 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript "De materia medica" by Discorides, illustrated with more than 400 representations of animals and plants. Vol. XII of the collection "Reihe Codices Selecti". With accompanying commentary by Hans Gerstinger, ill. with b/w photogr. reproductions on 10 pp.
Joined: 1. Berendes, Julius - Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern [...]. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1902. 8vo. Publ. blue cloth. - 2. Prospectus for "Dioskurides. Codex Neapolitanus. Dokumenten zur Faksimile-Ausgabe". Rome, Salerno; Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, (1988). 4to. Sewn. (4 vol.)