Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter

No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.

Pietro Andrea Mattioli's 'Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis de medica materia' is a massive, multi-volume botanical and medical commentary originally written in Italian and later translated into Latin. While Dioscorides' original Greek work has been translated into English, Mattioli's extensive Renaissance commentary itself has not been translated into English. Extensive searches across scholarly catalogs and databases yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation of Mattioli's Latin commentary.

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