![]() Ibn Butlan's Tacuinum sanitatis, Rhineland, 2nd half of 15th c. | |
Author | Ibn Butlan |
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Original title | Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa |
Language | Arabic, Latin |
Subjects | health and wellbeing |
Genres | medical |
Publication date | 11th century |
Publication place | Baghdad under Abbasid Caliphate |
Text | Tacuinum Sanitatis online |
The Taccuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook mainly on health aimed at a cultured lay audience. Originally an 11th-century Arab medical treatise composed by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad under the name of Taqwīm aṣ‑Ṣiḥḥa (Arabic: تقويم الصحة, lit. 'Tabular Register of Health').[1] In the West, the work is known by the Latinized name taken by its translations: Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis.[2] The text exists in several variant Latin versions, the manuscripts of which are profusely illustrated. Numerous European versions were made in increasing numbers in the 14th and 15th centuries.[3]
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