1971 FACSIMILE EDITION Medicina antiqua illustrated 2 VOLUMES

img{max-width:100%} Medicina antiqua libri quattuor medecinae.(Codex Vindobonensis 93).Facsimile edition Graz, Akad. Druck- and Vlgs.-Anstalt ; 1971-72.2 volumes (facsimile and commentary).Small folio: 8 by 11.5"With approx. 160 colored facsimile leaves. Blind tooled leather binding of the manuscript facsimile.Half leather bound CommentaryPerfect condition except small spot to the front cover of Commentary volumeText in English and German========================A popular medical text of the Middle Ages, forty-seven manuscript copies of Medicina Antiqua survive. However, none is as richly illustrated as the copy in Vienna. Its 160 folios are filled with hundreds of pictures of herbs, medical procedures, mythological scenes as well as four spectacular full-page author portraits enriched with gold. Created in southern Italy in the first decades of the thirteenth century, its script complete with pen flourished initials is a neat Italian Gothic, however, the style of the original colo