- 100
Mukhtar ibn al-Hasan, called Ibn Butlan.
Estimate
7,500 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
- Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar... de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conservandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit de virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus de rerum gradibus. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1531
first edition, 3 parts in one volume, folio (295 x 191mm.), title and much of text printed in red and black, 40 woodcut illustrations by Hans Weiditz at foot of pages illustrating plants, animals, fruits, humours, diseases and cookery, modern brown half morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt
Provenance
A. Bernardes de Oliveira, bookplate
Literature
Durling 2520; Vicaire 323
Catalogue Note
Ibn Butlan, a Christian physician in Baghdad in the eleventh century, attempted to summarize medical knowledge in the form of synoptic tables. The effect and influence of many remedies, various waters, food, animals, the seasons, etc. are evaluated to bring about a harmony of health in man. The other two works in this edition, which both deal with similar subjects, are by the ninth-century Arabic philosopher Alkindus and the eleventh-century Spanish physician Albengnefit.