"Dioscorides alphabeticus", herbas tantum describens, imaginibus curiosis illustratus, glossario multilingui auctus. Medio saeculo IV Oribasius in Collectionibus medicis suis (lib. XI-XIII) medicamenta botanica et mineralia e Dioscoride ordine alphabetico compendiose enumeravit, e recensione alphabetica iam exstante ut videtur citans.[3][4] Recensionis alphabeticae exemplaria sunt:
Dioscorides Neapolitanus: exemplar saeculo fere VII factum. In Nationali Bibliotheca Neapolitana servatur
"Dioscorides alphabeticus" locupletior, in quinque libris divisus, herbis et glossis multilinguibus e recensione alphabetico priori, rebus medicinalibus aliis e recensione pristina demptis et ordine alphabetico inter libros singulos coactis
"Dioscorides interpolatus", e recensione pristina refectus, additamentis e Dioscoride alphabetico auctus
Versiones Latinae tres aevis antiquo et medio factae sunt.[5] Versionis antiquissimae (A), saeculo III a Gargilio Martiali factae, fragmenta tantum supersunt. Versionis secundae (B) excerpta pauca apud pseudo-Apuleium et IsidoriEtymologias reperiuntur. Versio mediaevalis (C, etiam "Dioscorides Langobardus" ab eruditis appellata), ab exemplari recensionis genuinae saeculo fere VI conversa, e libro manuscripto saeculi IX nobis cognoscitur. Haec versio saeculo fere XI in ordinem alphabeticum retractata est; quae recensio sub nomine "Dyascorides" recognoscitur.[6]
Contra John Scarborough, "Early Byzantine pharmacology" in Dumbarton Oaks Papers vol. 38 (1984) pp. 213-232 JSTOR ad pp. 223-224, qui proponit opus Oribasii archetypum esse recensionis alphabeticae. Quod autem difficile erit credendum, textu multo ab Oribasio omisso in libris recensionis alphabeticae recitato.
1589 (Ianus Antonius Saracenus, interpr.): Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbaei opera quae exstant omnia. Francofurti: sumtibus haeredum Andreae Wecheli (Textus apud Google Books)
1829-1830 (Curtius Sprengel, ed.): Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei De materia medica libri quinque. 2 voll. Lipsiae (Graece, Latine)(1 apud Google Books)(2 apud Google Books)
1906-1914 (Max Wellmann, ed.): Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei De materia medica libri quinque. 3 voll. Berolini: Weidmann (Graece)123 / 123
Versiones
1478 (Constantinus Africanus fortasse interpr.; Petrus de Abano, recens.): Dyascorides. Incipit "[M]ulti voluerunt auctores antiqui de virtutibus herbarum"; "Explicit Dyascorides quem Petrus Paduanensis legendo corexit et exponendo quae utiliora sunt in lucem reduxit". Colle: Iohannes de Medemblick, Iulio 1478[b 1]Textus apud MDZ
1516 (Hermolaus Barbarus, interpr.): Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii ... in Dioscoridem ab Hermolao Barbaro tralatum annotamenta; Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia ab eodem Barbaro Latinitate primum donati; ... Hermolai Barbari ... Corollarium libris quinque absolutum. Venetiis[b 2]Textus apud Monacenses
c. 1650 facta, anno 1934 divulgata (J. Goodyer, interpr.; R. T. Gunther, ed.): The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Londinii recensio interretialis huius versionis
1998 (Manuela García Valdez, interpr.): Dioscórides. Plantas y remedios medicinales (De materia medica). 3 voll. Matriti: Gredos
2005 (Lily Y. Beck, interpr.; John Scarborough, praef.): Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus. De materia medica. Berolini: Olms-Weidmann Recensio huius operis
Praefatio: John Scarborough, Vivian Nutton, "The Preface of Dioscorides' Materia Medica: introduction, translation, commentary" in Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia n.s. vol. 4 (1982) pp. 187-227.
Balsamum: Andreas Chiocchus, Carmen de balsami natura et viribus iuxta Dioscoridis placita. Veronae, 1596[b 4]
Giovanni Pona, Del vero balsamo de gli antichi: commentario ... sopra l'Historia di Dioscoride. Venetiis, 1623 (Textus apud Google Books)
Bryonia: S. S. Renner, J. Scarborough, H. Schaefer, H. S. Paris, J. Janick, "Dioscorides’ bruonia melaina is Bryonia alba, not Tamus communis and an illustration labelled bruonia melaina in the Codex Vindobonensis is Humulus lupulus not Bryonia dioica" in M. Pitrat, ed., Cucurbitaceae 2008: IXth Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Cucurbitacea (Avenione: INRA, 2008) pp. 273-280
Mandragora: George Saliba, Linda Komaroff, "Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the "Materia Medica" of Dioscorides" in Ars Orientalis vol. 35 (2008) pp. 6-65 JSTOR
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (Londinii: British Library, 2000) pp. 31-89 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
Marie Cronier, "Le Dioscoride alphabétique latin et les traductions latines du De materia medica" in David Langslow, Brigitte Maire, edd., Body, Disease and Treatment in a Changing World: Latin texts and contexts in ancient and medieval medicine (Lausannae: Editions BHMS, 2010) pp. 189-200
Florence E. Day, "Mesopotamian Manuscripts of Dioscorides" in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin n.s. vol. 8 (1950) pp. 274-280 JSTOR
A. Dietrich, Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn al-Baiṭar: ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pflanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Gottingae: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991
Cesar E. Dubler, Elias Teres Sadaba, La 'Materia Medica' de Dioscorides, transmisión medieval y renacentista. 6 voll. Barcelone, 1952-1957
Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Toronti: University of Toronto Press, 2012) pp. 64-78 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
A. Ferraces Rodríguez, Estudios sobre textos latinos de fitoterapia entre la Antigüedad Tardía y la Alta Edad Media. Corunnae, 1999
Martin Levey, Early Arabic Pharmacology: An Introduction Based on Ancient and Medieval Sources. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1973 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
John M. Riddle, "The Latin Alphabetical Dioscorides" in Proceedings of XIIIth International Congress of the History of Science, Moscow, 1971, sections III and IV (Moscuae, 1974) pp. 204-209
John M. Riddle, "Byzantine Commentaries on Dioscorides" in Dumbarton Oaks Papers vol. 38 (1984) pp. 95-102 JSTOR
John M. Riddle, Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985
Mahmoud M. Sadek, The Arabic Materia Medica of Dioscorides. Quebeci: Editions du Sphinx, 1983
George Saliba and Linda Komaroff, "Illustrated Books May Be Hazardous to Your Health: A New Reading of the Arabic Reception and Rendition of the "Materia Medica" of Dioscorides" in Ars Orientalis vol. 35 (2008) pp. 6-65 JSTOR
John Scarborough, "Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural History: some observations on substances and sources" in Roger French, Frank Greenaway, edd., Science in the Early Roman Empire (Londinii: Croom Helm, 1986) pp. 59-85 [de fontibus tam Dioscoridis quam Plinii]
John Scarborough, Pharmacy's ancient heritage: Theophrastus, Nicander and Dioscorides. Lexington, 1985.