Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 4182

Casanatense Theatrum Sanitatis Facsimile Edition

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The Casanatense Theatrum Sanitatis is a richly illuminated summary translation into Latin of Taqwīm aṣ‑Ṣiḥḥa by ibn Buṭlān of Baghdad, a medical treatise on the maintenance of good health based on six principles. Made in the late fourteenth-century manuscript in northern Italy, it contains 208 large-scale, vivid, and lively miniatures depicting medicinal plants, the preparation of medicine, and scenes from daily life. One of the earliest illustrated copies of the Theatrum Sanitatis, it is thought to have been commissioned by Giangaleazzo Visconti, Count of Milan, from the workshop of Giovannino de' Grassi.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Casanatense Theatrum Sanitatis": Theatrum Sanitatis facsimile edition, published by M. Moleiro Editor, 1998

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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Theatrum Sanitatis

Barcelona: M. Moleiro Editor, 1998

  • Commentary (English, Spanish) by López Piñero, Josè M.; Jerez Moliner, Felipe; Barton de Mayor, Anne
  • Limited Edition: 987 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Casanatense Theatrum Sanitatis: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Binding

Brown leather embossed with gold.

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