In Dioscoridis Anazarbei De materia medica libros quinque,

Amato, Lusitano, 1511-1568, Constantin, Robert, -1605, Dalechamps, Jacques, 1513-1588, Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566 · 1558 · Lugduni [i.e. Lyon], : Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, sub scuto Veneto. · 23 pictures

A 1558 Lyon herbal, a Latin commentary on Dioscorides' materia medica compiled by several physicians and editors, printed for a medical and scholarly readership. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts of single plants, each shown whole from root to flowering top against a plain ground, with the species name set beneath; a designer could draw on their clean botanical line work, sprawling root systems and tidy leaf patterns.

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos · Materia medica · Botany, Medical · Materia medica, Vegetable · Medicine, Greek and Roman · Balsam poplar · Guaiac · Imprint 1558

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