Der Wiener Dioscorides

1. DER WIENER DIOSCORIDES
History and Relation to History of Art and Pharmacy

2. DIOSCORIDES
about 20 - about 70
Dioscorides traveled
extensively seeking
medicinal substances from
all over the Roman and
Greek world
De Materica Medica - 65 not
illustrated

4. ÖSTERREICHISCHE
NATIONAL-
BIBLIOTHEK
Arrived inVienna 1569
Purchased by Maximillian
II
In The Imperial Library in
1592
UNESCO ‘s Memory of
the World 1997

6. COD. MED
GR.1
*Juliana Anacia Codex
*Codex Vindobonensis
*385 paintings of plants
*Restored in 1405 by John
Chortamenos
Text by Dioscorides,
Rufus, Dionysius of
Philadelphia and Nicander
Gift to Anacia Juliana.

8. PEACOCK
*In Greco-Roman
mythology the Peacock is
identified with the
goddess Hera (Juno)
*In Christianity the
peacock is an ancient
symbol of eternal life.
*The Peacock represents
the "all-seeing" church and
resurrection, renewal and
immortality

10. CHIRON
In Greek mythology, the centaur,
Chiron, was wounded by
Hercules. Though he was
immortal, it is said that he
invented medicine in order to
heal himself. He taught
Asclepius the art of healing,
which became the source of all
divine medical knowledge
among the Greeks. Chiron was
also the teacher of the hero,
Achilles, who was thought to
have had some special medical
knowledge.

11. NIGROS
about 10 - about 40

12. MACHEON
Known from Homer

13. HERAKLEIDES
OF TARENT
about 125 - 75 AC
physician

14. PAMPHILOS
FROM
ALEXANDRIA
about 50-100

15. MANTILAS
about 150-100 AC
physician

16. XENOKRATES
AUS
APHRODISIAS
About 30-80
physician

18. GALEN
about 130 - about 200
physician and philosopher

19. DIOSCORIDES
Physician, pharmacologist
and botanist.
De Materica Medica five
book study focused upon
"the preparation,
properties, and testing of
drugs", became the most
central pharmacological
work in Europe and the
Middle East for the next
sixteen centuries.

20. CRATEUAS
rhizotomist, body
physician to Mithridates
VI Eupator (120-63 B.C.)
had the reputation of
knowing more about
poisons and their
antidotes than any one
else

21. NICANDER
2nd century BC, Greek poet,
physician and grammarian is
holding out a plant to a
serpent
His treatise on snake bites is
part of the manuscript
He wrote a number of works
both in prose and verse, of
which two survive complete.
The longest, Theriaca, is a
hexameter poem , the other is
Alexipharmaca.

22. APOLLONIUS
MYS
about 50 AC
physician

23. RUFUS OF
EPHESUS
about 80-110 was an ancient
Greek pharmacologist
physician and author who
wrote treatises on dietetics,
pathology, anatomy, and
patient care. He was to some
extent a follower of
Hippocrates, although he at
times criticized or departed
from that author's teachings.
Autor of the Carmen de
viribus herbarum

24. ANDREAS
about 217 AC

26. Dioscorides is seated.
Heuresis gives the
mandrake root to him.
At Dioscrides feets the dog
who is dead.

28. Dioscorides sits wrighting
in a codex on his lap.
In front of Dioscorides is
an artist, seated at a lower
level, painting an
illustration of the
mandrake root held by
Epinoia.

30. ANICIA
JULIANA
462-527
Imperial Princess
in Constantinopel

31. The oldest dedication
miniature in existence.
Anicia Juliana in the middle
Magnanimity with gold
coins and Prudence with a
codex.
«Gratitude of the Arts» with
the feets. She and a putto
have the dedication copy. In
outer spandels putti
working as masons and
carpenters.

32. THE CHURCH OF
ST. POLYEUCTUS
The church was built
512-13 by Anacia Juliana.
It was the largest church of
Constantionpel before the
construction of the Hagia
Sophia.
The site of the church
was rediscovered during
excavations in the 1960s.

34. The building survived
until the 11th century, after
which it
fell into decay, while
several architectural
elements were
removed and reused in
Constantinople and other
cities.
The sculptures have been
removed to the Istanbul
Archaeological Museum.

38. HAIL, OH PRINCESS, HONORATAE
EXTOLS AND GLORIFIES YOU WITH ALL
FINE PRAISES: FOR MAGNANIMITY
(MEGALOPSYCHIA) ALLOWS YOU TO BE
MENTIONED OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD.
YOU BELONG TO THE FAMILY OF THE
ANICII, AND YOU HAVE BUILT A TEMPLE
OF THE LORD, RAISED HIGH AND
BEAUTIFUL.

40. BIBLIOGRAFI
Brubaker, Leslie: «The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia
Juliana» i Byzantine Garden Culture, Washington
D.C. 2002
Dioscorides, Pedanius; Der Wiener Dioskurides:
Codex medicus Graecus 1 und 2 Akademische
Druck-u Verlaganstalt, Graz 1998 und 1999
Kiilerich, Bente; Billedet af Anicia Juliana i
Dioskourides-manuskriptet i Wien. Bysantinska
sällskapet Bulletin 18, 2000, s.5-15

41. BIBLIOGRAFI
Kiilerich, Bente; The Image of Anicia Juliana in the
Vienna Dioscurides: Flattery or Appropriation of
Imperial Imagery; Symbolae Osloenses 76, 2001, s.
169-190
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