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Do you like this #Facsimile? Then contact us under contact@ or visit our homepage: Many people in the Middle Ages followed the warnings of Pliny the Elder regarding physicians, whom he often insulted and said should never be trusted, and so sought self-treatments of the kind contained in the Medicina Antiqua. Although the richly illuminated manuscript's individual texts were more nourished by magical ideas than by scientific theory, it is nonetheless a comprehensive medical and pharmaceutical #manuscript in Latin, produced in the first half of the 13th century in Southern Italy, possibly in the environment of the #Staufer court. It contains medical knowledge from writers of late antiquity like Dioscorides and as such, contains pagan gods and symbols, which later Christian readers found offensive and attempted to erase or Christianize. You can find this and many other facsimiles under:
