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Pedacius Dioscorides, c. 40-80 -a Cilician Greek
originator of the brance of medical science known as
materia medica, the materials of medicine
Translated into many languages, Dioscorides' herbal
continued in use for more than 1500 years.
His work is divided into 5 books: first, aromatics, ida,
ointments, trees; second, animal products of dictatic +
medicinal value, cereals, + garden herbs; third + fourth
roots, juices, + other medicinal plants; + fifth,
vines, wines, + metallic ores.
Dioscordies; work - first published in Greek by Aldus
Manutius at Venice in 1499.
contemporary of Pliny - usually accorded the title of the 1st
European to compile a materia medica - as distinct from a
botanical handbook.
Six hundred plants with their medical properties are described - of
which 90 are still in use today.

Ellen K. Shaffer - The Garden of Health - SF Book Club - 1959
Gunst Z239 K3552f leaf from Hortus Sanitalis - 1499
checklist fo editions printed before 1550
Gart 1485-1547 Hortas Sanitatis 1491-1538
The Gart was the only herbal printed in Switzerland
in the 15th C; Funter issued it a Basel around 1486.
Schonsperger, - of 13 edtiions of the Gart before the
close of the century, he was responsible fo r7 -
1485, 6, 7, 8, 93 (2), 96, 99.

Speculum Humanae Saluationis - The Minor Haman Salvation
-compiled about 1324 by Ludolph of Saxony a Dominican
monk in a house of the order at Strassbourg. - See #81

"Mosan" school of Art - Meuse Valley 12 C.