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The four seasons of the House of Cerruti / translated by Judith Spencer.
LIBRA RS79 .T33513 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Tacuinum sanitatis (Ms. Österr. Nationalbib. ser. n. 2644). English.
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek--Manuscript--Series nova 2644.
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Austria--Vienna.
- Materia medica--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria--Vienna.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian.
- Materia Medica.
- Manuscripts as Topic.
- Medical Subjects:
- Materia Medica.
- Manuscripts as Topic.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Penman, Sharon Kay (donor) (Van Pelt copy)
- Physical Description:
- 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 25 cm
- Other Title:
- House of Cerruti
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Facts on File Publications, [1984]
- Language Note:
- Translated into English from a 14th century Latin manuscript which was translated from the original Arabic.
- Notes:
- "Complete revised translation." Judith Spencer has translated the English text from the Italian ed. published in Milan by Mondadori in 1983 as: Il Libro di casa Cerruti.
- Contains full-color reproductions of the 205 miniatures of the Tacuinum sanitatis preserved in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek as ms. series nova 2644, although in different order, together with an English translation of the accompanying captions which--notwithstanding the statement on p. 6 that "the integrity of the text of the Vienna manuscript is preserved"--Interpolates information from Dioscorides and others not found in the original ms.
- One of several illustrated Tacuina, the captions or text of which are based on the Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥah of Ibn Buṭlān, which was unillustrated. The work is here associated with the House of Cerruti because the coat of arms on the first page of the ms. was identified by Julius von Schlosser, who brought the ms. to the attention of scholars, as belonging to the Cerruti family of Verona.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Sharon Kay Penman
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tacuinum sanitatis (Ms. Österr. Nationalbib. ser. n. 2644). English. Four seasons of the House of Cerruti.
- ISBN:
- 0816001383
- 9780816001385
- OCLC:
- 11159651
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