Seeds of Knowledge Stickers

A great item for botany lovers of all ages! This sticker sheet features 12 different illustrations from the De materia medica (On medical material) by Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40-90) dating from Constantinople.

For more than 1,600 years, the Dioscorides was the uncontested Western authority in the fields of pharmacology and botany. De materia medica provides the name and geographical distribution of plants, sometimes detailing which parts should be used, and briefly describes collecting, preserving, preparing, and dosing their extracts. One of the oldest copies of this book to survive, this manuscript was perhaps commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI (reigned 886-912). The Arabic and Ottoman names of the plants were added in the fifteenth or sixteenth century when the manuscript was still in Constantinople.

This sticker sheet is a product made to complement the exhibition Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals on view at the Morgan Library & Museum October 6, 2023 through January 14, 2024.