29-01-2018, 11:13 PM
Been looking for some grape illustrations which are similar to the Dioscorides one, but this proved difficult. As Collins wrote, it does not correspond to other drawings from the tradition. For example, MorganMS M.652 fol. 270v (Turkey, Istanbul, mid 10th century) shows a much more creeping vine with "flat", equalized leaves:
![[Image: m652.270va.jpg]](http://ica.themorgan.org/icaimages/6/m652.270va.jpg)
And unfortunately grape is missing from the Juliana Anicia Codex. I say unfortunately because its art style is really similar to the Tokapi vine, so I would have liked to compare them.
I found one plant illustration which is similar in the way the plant is drawn, standing up with three "branches". It looks like a very stylized version of a Diosciridan model, though proper attention is stil given to the leaf edges and veins. From: Leiden Or.289, 1083 CE. Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides. f185a
![[Image: 3f75ccbc2b327237e171b4fd7fff4b7f.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/75/cc/3f75ccbc2b327237e171b4fd7fff4b7f.jpg)
(When I followed the link, it turned out that the source of this image was Marco's Pinterest, again
)
The VM is the only one I found which attempts to render the differences in leaf shade, shape and "volume" we see in the Tokapi example. So I can still very much appreciate the similarities between these drawings, even though they appear to refer to different plants.
And unfortunately grape is missing from the Juliana Anicia Codex. I say unfortunately because its art style is really similar to the Tokapi vine, so I would have liked to compare them.
I found one plant illustration which is similar in the way the plant is drawn, standing up with three "branches". It looks like a very stylized version of a Diosciridan model, though proper attention is stil given to the leaf edges and veins. From: Leiden Or.289, 1083 CE. Arabic translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides. f185a
(When I followed the link, it turned out that the source of this image was Marco's Pinterest, again
)The VM is the only one I found which attempts to render the differences in leaf shade, shape and "volume" we see in the Tokapi example. So I can still very much appreciate the similarities between these drawings, even though they appear to refer to different plants.