The books of Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus A Greek physician and botanist of the 1st century AD, author of the foundational text on herbal medicine. on
medical matters, in which many parts are missing from the
beginning. For the manuscript begins
at Book II, chapter 207?. The second book begins
with these words which are found in the edition
of Dioscorides by Janus Antonius Saracenus of Lyon,
page 163, lines 3 and 4: that which is in the papyrus of the flute-scrapers cools... beginning... and thus being suppurated, etc. original Greek: "ὃ μὲν ἐν χαρτοις αὐλῆς-σκάφων ψύχει ἀρχὴ δῶσε L. καὶ οὕτω-πυόμενος κ.τ.λ." It ends indeed in this
redaction at the bottom of folio 170 (for the following
folio 171 belongs to Book III, chapters 152 and 153 respectively?
and ought to have been placed at the beginning) with the words: all [pains] and the itchings over the whole body when smeared on with soda. original Greek: "πᾶσαν κ[αὶ] τὰς καθ’ ὅλον τὸ σῶμα κνησμὰς σὺν νίτρῳ σμηχόμενον." —
which are found in the same edition on page 375, section C.

The manuscript incomparable? seems? to be of great
antiquity, written in uncials A style of writing using large, rounded capital letters, typical of 4th–8th century manuscripts. and black? ink,
and decorated here and there with figures of plants,
to which nearly every one has their
names ascribed in Arabic characters, as well as in
the margins, the diseases for the cure of which
they are suitable. Folio.

See the letter 309 of Casaubon. Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), a renowned classical scholar.

"S: 123."