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These are pages from the Vienna Dioscurides. The donor portrait of Julia Anicia in the Vienna Dioscurides is the oldest extant donor portrait The Vienna Dioscurides (Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. ...

Peacock endpapers	Folio 6v, Donor portrait.	Folio 3v, seven physicians.	Author portrait.
Folio 5v, Author portait	Coral	Folio 148v, violet	Pimpernel
Plant	Birds	Folio 483v, birds. Download high resolution version (590x760, 77 KB)Folio 483v from the Vienna Dioscurides. ...

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	A gallery of birds from folio 483v of the Vienna Dioscorides.
	In addition to the text by Dioscurides, the manuscript has appended to it the Carmen de herbis attributed to Rufus, a paraphrase of an ornithological treatise by a certain Dionysius, usually identified with Dionysius of Philadelphia, and paraphrase of Nicander's treatise on the treatment of snake bites.
	In front of Dioscurides is an artist, seated at a lower level, painting an illustration of the mandrake root.

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