Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Thirty-seven books on 'the nature of things, that is, life' — the encyclopedia Europe kept copying for fifteen hundred years.

Made by

Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE)

Date

Completed 77 CE; this copy a Renaissance manuscript

Held by

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence (Plut. 82.4)

Medium

Illuminated manuscript on parchment

Plates

1

Image credits

• Plate 1: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Plut. 82.4, fol. 3r; reproduction of a public-domain work. License: Public domain. Source page ↗