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illustrations that are more abstract. The majority of the illustrations were painted in a naturalistic style so as to aid a pharmacologist in the recognition of each plant. However, it is believed that these illustrations were made as copies of an earlier herbal and were not drawn from nature.
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The manuscript has 383 extant full-page illustrations of plants out of the original 435 illustrations. The illustrations fall into two groups. There are those that faithfully follow earlier classical models and present a quite naturalistic illustration of each plant. There are also other
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by scholars. Although it was created as a luxury copy, in later centuries it was used daily as a textbook in the imperial hospital of
Constantinople, and a medieval note records that a Greek nurse there, named Nathanael, had it rebound in 1406.
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measure 37 cm (15 in) by 30 cm (12 in) and contain more than 400 pictures of animals and plants, most done in a naturalistic style. In addition to the text by
Dioscorides, the manuscript has appended to it, the
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Stolarczyk. "Ancient Greek illustrated Dioscoridean herbals: origins and impact of the Juliana Anicia Codex and the Codex Neopolitanus." Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 40.1 (2012):
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Byzantine period the manuscript was used as the original for copies of the work that were given to foreign leaders, including the Arabic edition of
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