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Morgan Dioscurides
The Morgan Dioscurides (Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M. 652) is a 10th-century Byzantine illuminated copy of the ''De Materia Medica'' by the Greek physician Dioscurides, which covers the medical use of herbs and other natural resources. It is a tenth-century incarnation of Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica, written in AD 65 and widely regarded as the most comprehensive collection of naturally occurring resources (plants, animals etc.) and their medical uses. Today, it is regarded as an early, fairly accurate, form of pharmacological text,〔Hummer,Kim. “Rubus Iconography: Antiquity to the Renaissance”. Purdue: Accessed September 25, 2013.http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/rubusicon.pdf〕 in herbal form.
==History and Context in Byzantium==
The Morgan Dioscurides was written in Greek and illustrated in Constantinople around the tenth century AD.〔Hummer,Kim. “Rubus Iconography: Antiquity to the Renaissance”. Purdue: Accessed September 25, 2013.http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/rubusicon.pdf〕 Byzantium, often called the “New Rome”, was heavily inspired by Greco-Roman art and architecture. In the Early Byzantine Period, that in which the Morgan Dioscurides (as well as the Illiad, for reference) was penned, the visual culture there was shaped by iconography. This adherence to classical Greco-Roman law and religion made for a peaceable, organized political structure. As such, as Oswei Tempkin states in his journal article "Byzantine Medicine: Tradition and Empiricism", "Medicine of the period of Constantinople was Christian. It accepted rather than shaped a tradition". Medical thinking during this time reflected religious philosophy, seeking to utilize God's creation.〔Temkin, Owsei. “Byzantine Medicine: Tradition and Empiricism.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 16 (January 1, 1962): 95–115. doi:10.2307/1291159.〕 This is evident in works like De Materia Medica. Within this religious and classical structure, the elite could easily utilize Roman law to establish and maintain power dynamics. The most powerful were those in charge of urban centers of heightened economic activity. As an essential port of trade between east and west, the nation also had the capability to borrow from multiple cultures and utilized this access to create gilded, masterful, artistic pieces. This period was followed by a shift from prevalence of sculpture in the round to low relief sculpture and two-dimensional art. During this time, Byzantium’s standing as a wealthy trading nation factored into their art production as imported mosaics were crafted into mosaic artworks.〔Sarah Brooks, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. “Byzantium (ca. 330–1453)” Thematic Essay Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Accessed September 9, 2013. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/byza/hd_byza.htm.〕
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