Tacuinum Sanitatis
Venice, 1490
Rounded Humanist Bookhand
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Austria)
Codex Vindoboniensis 2396
Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1984
Publisher: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz (Austria)
Series: Codices e Vaticanis Selecti
Printer: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz (Austria)
Tacuinum Sanitatis is the modern title given to one of the most popular treatises on
medicine during the later Middle Ages. It combines Arabic and western knowledge on many
types of foods, plants, and circumstances, with particular reference to their useful and
harmful properties, and how the latter could be cured if necessary. The illustrated
versions of this text, of which two are presented here, yield much information on
medieval daily life.
