Hand painted icon Vigilias Tacuinum Sanitatis Medieval health guide man sleeping - $47 - (New York, NY)
Vintage (recent, not antique) hand painted icon done in a Medieval style, a man sleeping in a castle Block measures 5 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 3/4, slight bend to the wood Tag attached with wax seal from La Edad Media, A Corua (Spain) Vigilias Tacuinum Sanitatis Manual de salud del siglo XIV Tacuinum Sanitatis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ibn Butlan's Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland, 2nd half of 15th century Harvesting garlic, from Tacuinum Sanitatis, ca. 1400 (Bibliothque nationale, Paris) The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis[1] is a medieval handbook mainly on health, based on the Taqwm assiah ("Maintenance of Health"), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad.[2] Aimed at a cultured lay audience, the text exists in several variant Latin versions, the manuscripts of which are characteristically so profusely illustrated that one student called the Tacuinum "a trecento picture book," only "nominally a medical text".[3] Though describing in detail the beneficial and harmful properties of foods and plants, it is far more than a herbal. Listing its contents organically rather than alphabetically, it sets forth the six essential elements for well-being: sufficient food and drink in moderation, fresh air, alternations of activity and rest, alternations of sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, and finally the effects of states of mind. Tacuinum Sanitatis says that illnesses result from imbalance of these elements. Tacuinum Sanitatis, Lombardy, late 14th century (Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome). The terse paragraphs of the treatise were freely translated into Latin in mid-thirteenth-century Palermo or Naples,[4] where it continued an Italo-Norman tradition as one of the prime sites for peaceable inter-cultural contact between the Islamic and European worlds. "Magister Faragius" (Ferraguth) in Naples took responsibility for one translation into Latin, in a manuscript in the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, MS Lat. 15362 (…
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