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Using the Morgan&rsquo;s 10th-century manuscript of Dioscurides&rsquo; <em>De materia medica<\/em> (MS M.652) as a centerpiece, this Thaw Gallery exhibition will explore developments in the understanding of the healthful and healing properties of plants, as Europe moved away from medicinal folklore towards an increased understanding of the natural world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44271","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-lucia-tongiorgi-tomasi","8":"author-by-author-michael-jakob","9":"publisher-silvana","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seeds of Knowledge - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Seeds of Knowledge, Pages: 432 Pages, Publish Date: 24th Oct 2023, Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Michael Jakob, ISBN: 9788836646869. 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