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Dioscorides
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Fruit of a worldwide search
We have scoured libraries around the world in search of the best surviving originals and copies of the work «From Materia Medica»by the Greek physician Dioscorides. Our Absolute Dioscorides offers the most impressive images created by artists from different periods during the last 2000 years.
We have included images from other codices and books that perpetuate the tradition of merging the medical texts and botanicals with exquisite representations of plants and animals.
Compilation of plants and their medicinal properties
Absolute Dioscorides is a enriched work with comments on the geography, agriculture, culture and economy of the time., these aspects make it a priceless jewel for the history of medicine and history in general.
Even in modern botany, they remain indispensable for identifying species and understanding their historical distribution. In spite of scientific advances, this work remains an essential reference in ethnobotany and phytotherapy, demonstrating their relevance y enduring value.
Absolute Dioscorides
A monumental journey through the history of pharmacopoeia and illustration
Absolute Dioscorides is based on the extensive study of D. José Manuel López Muñoz, born in Ceuta in 1946, PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Seville, offers a fascinating portrait of Dioscorides, immortalizing him as the supreme master of pharmacology for nearly 2,000 years, his work «De materia medica» was the basis of botanical illustration from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Dr. Lopez Muñóz, is passionate about botany and his encyclopedic knowledge about the compilations of Dioscorides brings us this work, the definitive essay on this work. In addition, the aforementioned professor has won the V Bubok Award for Literary Creation 2013.
Treasures hidden in libraries around the world
It describes in detail 12 authentic gems in the form of illuminated manuscripts and printed books preserved in the world's most prestigious libraries.
All the knowledge of the classical world
It collects the original writings of Dioscorides, who compiled all the knowledge of the classical world on how to use plants and other materials for medicinal purposes.
Dioscorides' life and times
The work compiles an analysis of his life and cultural environment, the state of medicine in those times, and the innovative approach he brought to the description and classification of medicinal plants and their uses.
More than 300 high resolution images
Collected in the most beautiful manuscripts of «De Materia Medica» and of the printed treatises derived from it, they allow us to observe the evolution of the iconography of ancient, medieval and Renaissance pharmacological treatises.