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Summary
Description ViennaDioscoridesAuthorPortrait.jpg |
English:
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.
Deutsch:
Das erste Autorenbild aus dem
Wiener Dioskurides
(fol. 4
verso
): Heuresis (die Personifikation der Entdeckung) überreicht dem Arzt
Pedanios Dioskurides
eine Alraunwurzel. Da diese beim Ernten einen tödlichen Schrei ausstoßen sollte, ließ man sie von einem Hund aus der Erde reißen. Heuresis weist deshalb auf das verendete Tier zu ihren Füßen.
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Date | circa 512 |
Source | 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 |
Author | Unknown author Unknown author |
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