Tacuinum sanitatis

Tacuinum sanitatis ( in medicina ) is the name of several medieval Bilderkodizes in Vienna, Paris, Rome and Liege. Its basis is the work Taqwim it - sihha / تقويم الصحة / taqwīm ES sihha of the 11th century the Nestorian Christian physician Ibn Butlan. Taqwim ( adopted into Latin as tacuinum ) means " summary table " because the pages in the original Arabic are divided into regular fields. Since this is reminiscent of a checkerboard, the first German edition was awarded the title of chess Tafelen Gesuntheyt.

Issues and content

King Manfred of Sicily (1258-1266) gave Palermo a Latin translation of al - Taqwîm sihha from Arabic in order. From 1380 illustrated Giovannino de ' Grassi in northern Italy, a condensed version. The 169 images are pen and ink drawings, some of which are partially or completely painted in watercolors. In comparison with these elegant and skillfully executed drawings, the other versions of the end of the 14th century appear significantly coarser. Repository is the University Library Liege.

The Vienna tacuinum ( 2644 ms ) was born around 1390 in Lombardy. After the shield at the beginning of the code was among the first owners of Count Ludwig I of Württemberg - Urach. This edition is kept with two other from the 15th century, in the Austrian National Library. Subsequently developed parallel manuscripts, which date back to the Vienna edition, about the Paris tacuinum sanitatis, which originated around 1450 in the Rhineland and is now located in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The manuscripts are adopting less at a specialist audience, but are intended as home books. Its content is based on the ancient humoral pathology and explains what foods realities of the human environment and emotional states ( anger, joy, etc.) the STOICHEIA "dry", " wet ", " cold" and "warm" have and for which groups of people and in what areas they are useful. Garlic, for example, is " hot " and " dry" and create " rough and sharp juices ". He profitable against scorpion and snake bites, and against worms. He was recommended for weakened natures and in cold climates. The autumn season, however, was " moderately cold in the second degree " and multiply " melancholy juices ". The could be remedied with bathrooms. Availing he would children and young people in warm and moist areas. Besides a detailed illustrated recipe collection the codes advice for health, as well as knowing about plants and farming.

Comparisons

Gaudia. Vienna, ser. nov. 2644 to 1390

Gaudia. Biblioteca Casatanense, Rome ( 15th century)

Turtures ( turtledoves), Vienna, ser. nov. 2644 to 1390

Turtures. Biblioteca Casatanense, Rome ( 15th century)