Research Catalog

Title

The medieval health handbook : Tacuinum sanitatis / Luisa Cogliati Arano ; [translated and adapted by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook from the original Italian ed.].

Author

Ibn Buṭlān, -approximately 1068

Publication

New York : G. Braziller, 1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cogliati Arano, Luisa.
• Ibn Buṭlān, -approximately 1068.
• Child, Julia

Description

153 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

A lavishly decorated handbook of medicine was conceived for the lay public on topics such as human health, healing, medicine, and household management.

Alternative Title

• Tacuinum sanitatis
• Medieval health handbook

Subject

• Materia medica > Early works to 1800
• Materia medica > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Europe
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
• Medicine and art > History
• Medicine, Medieval > Pictorial works
• History, Medieval
• Medicine in the Arts > history
• History, Medieval

Genre/Form

• Pictorial Work
• Early works
• Pictorial works

Note

• Illustrations reproduced, and accompanying commentary translated, from five illuminated manuscript versions of the handbook, which was adapted from writings of the Arabian physician Ibn Botlân.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-153).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. -- 48 color plates and commentaries from the medieval manuscripts. -- 243 black-and-white plates and commentaries from the medieval manuscripts. -- Table of concordance. -- Bibliography. -- List of related manuscripts.

ISBN

0807608084

LCCN

^^^75021725^

OCLC

• 40624307
• SCSB-11103937

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library