Pedanius Dioscorides - Image Gallery

Image Gallery

  • De Materia Medica in Arabic, Spain, 12th-13th century

  • Cumin and dill from an Arabic book of simples (ca. 1334) after Dioscorides (British Museum)

  • Byzantine De Materia Medica, 15th century

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