Naples Dioscurides
The book has 172 folios and a page size of 29 . 7 x 14 cm ( 11 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches ) and the text is a redaction of "De Materia Medica" by the 1st century Greek military physician Dioscorides , with descriptions of plants and their medicinal uses . 
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