DER WIENER DIOSCORIDES History and Relation to History of Art and Pharmacy
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
ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONAL- BIBLIOTHEK Arrived invienna 1569 Purchased by Maximillian II In The Imperial Library in 1592 UNESCO s Memory of the World 1997
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.
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
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.
NIGROS about 10 - about 40
MACHEON Known from Homer
HERAKLEIDES OF TARENT about 125-75 AC physician
PAMPHILOS FROM ALEXANDRIA about 50-100
MANTILAS about 150-100 AC physician
XENOKRATES AUS APHRODISIAS About 30-80 physician
GALEN about 130 - about 200 physician and philosopher
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.
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
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.
APOLLONIUS MYS about 50 AC physician
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
ANDREAS about 217 AC
Dioscorides is seated. Heuresis gives the mandrake root to him. At Dioscrides feets the dog who is dead.
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.
ANICIA JULIANA 462-527 Imperial Princess in Constantinopel
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 http://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/ Der_Wiener_Dioscorides http://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/ Kategori:Der_Wiener_Dioscurides
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