Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis, medici caesari, et serenissimi principiis Ferdinandi archidvcis Avstriae &c. Commentarij in VI. libros Pedacij Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia, ab ipso avtore recogniti, et locis plvs mille avcti. Adjectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus ... Accesserunt ad margines Græci contextus ... qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatam lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicibus .
A 1583 Latin commentary by the Sienese physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli on Dioscorides' materia medica, printed in Venice by Felice Valgrisi for physicians and botanists. Its woodcuts show plants and animals drawn for identification, with plain outlines, hatched shading and no background, offering a designer clear botanical and natural-history forms to adapt.
