Quote:Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, Cod. gr. 3632 is a collection of medical and astrological
texts with crude illustrations copied from a variety of sources which Olivieri dated to the
fifteenth century. The light brown minuscule script is in a number of hands but the
illustrations are all by the same artist. There are portraits of doctors in medallions (fols 17-
26), illustrations of doctors and pupils, and of animals and snakes, together with the majority
of illustrations found in Vatican Chigi. F.VII. 159 mixed haphazardly with pictures of
bandaged legs, heads and bodies. Between folios 386-417 are crude copies of the illustrations
of plants from the Alphabetical Herbal Recension and of the prefatory illustratinos of the
Juliana Anicia Codex. The latter are dispersed out of order on several folios. On fol. 377
there is an image of Dioscorides on an X-framed stool [ ... ]

(23-07-2024, 03:05 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems to have interesting parallels to Vat.Chigi F.VII 159 which set the theme of this thread, and Paris BN Grec 2108. It is, however, a compilation from many sources. There don't seem to be many illustrations online, but the few that one can find are quite interesting.Below, some herbs apparently from Dioscorides, with - I find - very interesting roots.