Image: Dioscorides Vienna (detail) (cropped)

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Description: From the Vienna Dioscorides (fol. 4 verso): The first of two portraits of original author Pedanius Dioscorides. Heuresis (the personification of discovery) presents Dioscorides with a mandrake root. Since this root was supposed to let out a deadly scream when harvested, a dog had it torn out of the ground. Heuresis therefore points to the dead animal at her feet.
Title: Dioscorides Vienna (detail) (cropped)
Credit: Scan aus: Pedanius Dioscorides — Der Wiener Dioskurides: Codex medicus Graecus 1 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst) Band 8/1 ISBN 3-201-01699-3 fol. 4 verso. Erläuterung: Kommentar von Otto Mazal, S. 22ff
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