Medicina Antiqua or "Ancient Medicine"

Medicina Antiqua or "Ancient Medicine"

This manuscript gives details of ancient Roman medicines and their uses and provides illustrations of the plants referenced in the text, as well as how the medicines are administered. This manuscript can be identified by its unique marginal additions to the primary text. Throughout the manuscript, there are two separate forms of illustration: the main illustrations that make up the manuscript, as well as line drawings that seem to have been made later, which add context to some of the text and markers for the important information.

This facsimile is bound in a light tan leather binding with the medical caduceus symbol embossed on the front. The pages are cut unevenly to replicate the shape and wear found in the original manuscript. This facsimile is an exact replica of the original manuscript.

Original MS: Attributed to the Staufer court
Facsimile: C. H. Talbot, Franz Unterkircher

Facsimile: UNT Special Collections Library, Call Number: RS79 .V5 1999a
Original MS: Vienna, Österreichische National-bibliothek, MS Vindobonensis 93

Akademische Druck und Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA)

Facsimile: 1978
Original MS: c. 13th Century

Commentary: Franz Unterkircher and C.H. Talbot
Translator: Martha Dulong

Akademische Druck und Verlaganstalt, Graz, Austria.

Dioscorides Neapolitanus

Original MS and Facsimile: 27.5 x 18.6 cm

Original MS: Latin
Facsimile: Latin
Facsimile Commentary: English, German, French

This manuscript is a medical compendium, comprising of many different works of medical resources.

Thirteenth-century copy of 4th and 5th c. medical texts

Southern Italy, Romanesque, c. 13th century

Prepared by Amelia Hill