Dioskorides Herbal: Violet

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Title Dioskorides Herbal: Violet
Location City/State Constantinople (Istanbul) (origin)
Location Country Turkey
Style Period Byzantine Art
Description copy of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides, made for the Byzantine princess Juliana Anicia, the daughter of Emperor Anicius Olybrius; also called the Vienna Dioscurides (Dioskorides)
Subject Illuminated Manuscripts; Botany; Natural History
Subject AAT Dioscurides; Dioskurides; Dioscorides
Creation Date ca. 512 CE
Form illuminated manuscript
Medium tempera on vellum
Dimensions 380 x 330 mm
Repository Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1, folio 148v; Vienna (Austria)
Source Slide Library 180 -Medieval Books incl Islamic
Work ID 5441
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6wx0v1p
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 31384
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wx0v1p
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