Vienna Dioscurides
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The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De materia medica by Pedanius Dioscorides in uncial
Folio 83r Rubus fruticosus (bramble)
A gallery of birds from folio 483v of the Vienna Dioscorides
Portrait of Anicia Juliana, for whom the book was made, flanked by Megalopsychia and Phronesis (detail from folio 6v)
Folio 3v, seven physicians
Uncial script
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Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style
Vienna Dioscurides
…an even earlier 1st century AD work, De materia medica (Ancient Greek: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, romanized: Perì hylēs iatrikēs) by Pedanius Dioscorides in uncial script. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text. After residing in Constantinople for just over a thousand years, the text passed…
The Book of Kells, c. AD 800, is lettered in a script known as "insular majuscule", a variety of uncial script that originated in Ireland.
A sample of the Latin text from the Codex Bezae, 5th century AD
A portion of the Codex Sinaiticus, in Byzantine uncial, containing Esther 2:3–8.
An exemplary early 6th-century semi-uncial, Codex Basilicanus S. Petri D 182