Text describing the uses of medicinal plants with an illustration of European bramble. From Dioscorides
Text describing the uses of medicinal plants with an illustration of European bramble. From Dioscorides (1st century CE), De materia medica (Vienna Dioscorides; Byzantine, ca. 515 CE), fol. 83r. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Codex Vindobonensis Med. gr. 1. Photo: © ÖNB Vienna.