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888 30. the visual arts<br />

Fig. 28 Laocoön. Miniature from the Vatican Virgil, early fifth century. Vatican Library (Cod. Vat.<br />

Lat, 3225, fol. 18v). (Photo: Biblioteca Vaticana)<br />

mass-produced editions. 10 The same may be said <strong>of</strong> the De Materia Medica<br />

<strong>of</strong> Dioscorides (Vienna ÖNB med.gr.1), produced around 512 in<br />

Constantinople for Anicia Juliana, daughter <strong>of</strong> the empress Galla<br />

Placidia. 11 It is a special edition with 498 miniatures, mostly <strong>of</strong> plants, but<br />

with additional texts and pictures from other tracts.<br />

Manuscript illumination remains an important source <strong>of</strong> information<br />

about artistic craftsmanship and methods during the period. The damaged<br />

physical condition <strong>of</strong> the Vatican Virgil lat 3225 and the Itala Quedlinburg<br />

10 Wright (1993) and Bianchi Bandinelli (1955). 11 Gerstinger (1970).<br />

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