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The Illustrated Dioskourides Codices and the Transmission of Images during Antiquity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

Joshua J. Thomas
Joshua J. Thomas*
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Abstract

A parchment codex of the early sixth century a.d., now in Vienna, contains a remarkable series of nearly 400 full-page illustrations of individual botanical species. These illustrations accompany an alphabetical recension of a pharmacological treatise on the medicinal properties of plants written by Dioskourides of Anazarbos, a Greek author of the first century a.d. Both the date of the codex and the style of its botanical illustrations have encouraged suggestions that the latter were modelled somehow on classical archetypes. This article presents new observations in support of the classical archetypes theory, but questions the traditional view that these archetypes were transmitted by ‘illustrated texts’ or ‘pattern books’ executed in papyrus or parchment. What follows is a new hypothesis concerning the nature of the artistic intermediaries used by painters, mosaicists and sculptors during antiquity.

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Dioskourides of Anazarbosthe Vienna DioskouridesAnicia Julianaillustrated manuscriptspattern booksartistic intermediariespinakes
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 109 , November 2019 , pp. 241 - 273
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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Footnotes

I am very grateful to Bert Smith and Ine Jacobs for reading earlier drafts of this article, and to Mary Whitby for helpful comments on the dedicatory epigram of the Vienna Dioskourides. I would also like to thank the Journal’s anonymous readers for their valuable comments and suggestions. Any remaining errors are mine alone.

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