(Q3966)
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Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Renaissance
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Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
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Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800
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[14--]
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 121 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 261 x 190 (210 x 130) mm bound to 268 x 202 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Origin: Written in the eastern Mediterranean in the 15th century.
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Collation: Paper, 121; 1-2⁴ 3² 4⁸(-2) 5⁴ 6¹⁰ 7¹² 8²⁴(-1) 9¹⁰(-1) 10¹⁰(-4, outer 2 bifolia) 11⁸(-2) 12¹⁰(-2) 13⁸(-1) 14¹³(?) 15⁸(-2, central bifolium) 16¹; text of the herbal (f. 31-121) has early pagination in ink, 1-66, 69-90, 97-108, 113-114, 117-124, 127-146, 149-165, [v], 166-187, 192-199, upper outer corners.
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Binding: Possibly 17th-century Greek blind-stamped calf over pasteboards; some leaves detached or almost detached.
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Decoration: 71 pen-and-wash drawings of medicinal plants (f. 1r-10v); pen-and-wash illustrations of Dioscorides and a companion collecting plants in bags (f. 1v) and Dioscorides and Galen (f. 4v); headings, captions, small initials, and large initials (sometimes with flourishes and extensions; for example, f. 82 (p. 117-118)) in red.
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Script: Written in Greek cursive minuscule script.
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Layout: Written in 20-36 long lines.
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Ms. codex.
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Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1996, lot 61, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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