| Period | Edition | Language | Availability of Illustrations | Collection/Publication Information |
| 65 AD | De Materia Medica by Dioscorides | Greek | No | Anonymous |
| 512 AD | Vienna Codex (Vienna Transcription)/Juliana Anicia Codex (Transcript of Juliana Anicia)/ Codex Vindobonensis | Greek | Yes | Austrian National Library, Vienna |
| About 600 AD | Codex Neapolitanus | Greek | Yes | Naples National Library |
| About 9th century | Dioscorides Longobardus | Latin | Yes | Munich National Library |
| Between 847 and 861 AD | Translation by Stephanos, Revised by Hunayn | Arabic | No | Library of the Suleiman Mosque (date unknown); Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (1219) |
| Between 927 and 985 AD | Pierpont-Morgan transcription Pierpont Morgan manuscript | Greek | Yes | Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| 990 AD | Translation by Hunayn, Stephanos, revised by Hunayn, Natili revised again | Arabic | No | Anonymous |
| 1083 AD | Leiden Manuscript, Hunayn, translation by Stephanos, revised by Hunayn, a later copy of Natili’s revised version | Arabic | Yes | Leiden University Library |
| Unknown, for Najm al-Din Alpi, who reigned from 1152-1176 AD | Mashhad’s original manuscript Hunayn translated from Greek into Syriac, and Mihran ibn Mansur further translated into Arabic | Arabic | Yes | Holy Mausoleum Museum of Imam Reza, Mashhad |
| 1461 AD | Mashhad manuscript copy | Arabic | Yes | Topkapı Palace, Istanbul |
| 1544 AD | Matthioli first edition (1507-1577) | Italian | No | Published in Venice |
| 1572 AD | Matthioli French edition | French | Yes | Sibbald Library |
| Between 1652 and 1655 AD | John Goodyer English edition | English | No | Unpublished |
| Between 1904-1916 AD | Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei De Materia Medica Libri Quinque (Max Wellmann Greek edition) | Greek | No | Reprinted in Berlin, Germany, 1958 |
| 1934 AD | Published by Robert T. Gunther from a manuscript by John Goodyer | English | Yes | Hafner Publishers, New York, and London reprinted 1959, 1971 |
| 2000 AD | The Herbal of Dioscorides the Greek (Tess Anne Osbaldeston English edition) | English | Yes | Ibidis Publisher, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2005 AD | De materia medica (Lily Y. Beck English edition) | English | No | Georg Olms Verlag, New York, four editions between 2005 and 2020 |