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Pedacio Dioscorides Anazarbeo, acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griega en la vulgar castellana illustrado y con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras por el doctor Andres de Laguna, Medico de Julio III, Pont. Maxi.

DIOSCORIDE / DIOSCORIDES, Pedacius · 1563 · Salamanque : Mathias Gast · 19 pictures

A 1563 Spanish edition of Dioscorides' herbal, translated from Greek and annotated by the physician Andrés de Laguna, printed in Salamanca by Mathias Gast for physicians and students of materia medica. Its pages pair dense black-letter Spanish text with woodcut plant illustrations, showing stems, leaves, flowers and roots drawn in clear outline with labelled captions, a useful model for botanical line drawing and for arranging technical text beside images.

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