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Anicia Juliana Codex

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Manuscript Information

Title of manuscript: Anicia Juliana Codex, Vienna Dioscorides, De Materia Medica, Codex Vindobonensis
MS call number (and folio selected): Med. Gr. 1, Folio 83r
Current location: Austrian National Library, Vienna
Place of creation: Constantinople
Date of creation: circa 515

Codicology and Paleography

Language(s) of text: Greek, Arabic, Hebrew
Script: Greek Byzantine Minuscule, 15th century Arabic and Hebrew
Abbreviations: No
Textual corrections
            Contemporary: No
            Later: No
Marginal commentary
            Contemporary: No
            Later: Plant names in Arabic have been added.
Rubrication: Yes, title atop page is rubricated, although the original red color has faded.
Instructions for scribe: No
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: No

Provenance

Marks of ownership: The largest mark of ownership is the manuscript's original dedication portrait on folio 6v where Anicia Juliana, the manuscript's first owner, is pictured. 
Previous owners: After Anicia Juliana owned the manuscript, it passed into the possession of the imperial hospital of Constantinople. When Constantinople fell, the manuscript was then owned by Moses Hamon, physician to the Ottoman sultan Suleiman. The manuscript was eventually purchased by the Flemish diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq for his employer Emperor Ferdinand I of the Austrian Hapsburgs. The book has remained in the Austrian National Library ever since. 

Mise en page

Columns: One
Lines per column: 39

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: No
Small ink initials: Yes, at the starts of paragraphs. 
Pen flourished initials: No
Painted initials: No
Gold initials: No
Foliate initials: No
Zoomorphic initials: No
Anthropomorphic initials: No
Historiated initials: No
Miniatures: Yes, unframed illustrations.
Marginal Illustrations: No
Full page illustration: No

Other Information

This book is copied from an earlier version of De Materia Medica from approximately 65 AD. This is the earliest version of the manuscript to survive. In addition, the portrait of Anicia Juliana is the earliest surviving example of a dedication portrait. 

Further readings

Demaitre, Luke E. Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe. , 2013. Print.Dioscorides, Pedanius, and Lily Y. Beck. De Materia Medica. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2005. Print.MacKinney, L. C., & Herndon, T. (1965). Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press.Mazal, Otto, and Pedanius Dioscorides. Der Wiener Dioskurides: Codex Medicus Graecus 1 Der OĢˆsterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Graz: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1998. Print.

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