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1971 FACSIMILE EDITION Medicina antiqua illustrated 2 VOLUMES

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Medicina antiqua libri quattuor medecinae.
(Codex Vindobonensis 93).
Facsimile edition
Graz, Akad. Druck- and Vlgs.-Anstalt ; 1971-72.
2 volumes (facsimile and commentary).
Small folio: 8 by 11.5"
With approx. 160 colored facsimile leaves.
Blind tooled leather binding of the manuscript facsimile.
Half leather bound Commentary
Perfect condition except small spot to the front cover of Commentary volume
Text in English and German

A popular medical text of the Middle Ages, forty-seven manuscript copies of Medicina Antiqua survive. However, none is as richly illustrated as the copy in Vienna. Its 160 folios are filled with hundreds of pictures of herbs, medical procedures, mythological scenes as well as four spectacular full-page author portraits enriched with gold. Created in southern Italy in the first decades of the thirteenth century, its script complete with pen flourished initials is a neat Italian Gothic, however, the style of the original colored illustrations invokes the much older Late Antique.
The Vienna Medicina Antiqua is the most spectacular illustrated example of this ancient text. Although its multiple lavish programs of illumination showing centuries of use, it represents the end of a thousand-year tradition of medical practice and knowledge that would soon be supplanted by new translations of Islamic texts and scientific discoveries from the newly established European universities. Despite its obsolete text, its extensive illustrations remain a remarkable window into both the practical and mystical practice of medieval medicine.

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