The medieval health handbook : Tacuinum sanitatis
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The medieval health handbook : Tacuinum sanitatis
G. Braziller, 1992
1st paperback printing
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Tacuinum sanitatis
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Tacuinum sanitatis
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Note
Original Italian ed. published as: Tacuinum sanitatis
First published in U.S. in 1976
The ill. (p. [49-144]) are selected for comparative purposes from 5 closely related Tacuina: the Tacuinum of Liège (Bib. univ. ms. 1041), the Tacuinum of Paris (Bib. nat. ms. Lat. nouv. acq. 1673), the Tacuinum of Vienna (Nationalbib. ms. ser. nova 2644), the Theatrum of the Casanatense Library, Rome (ms. 4182), and the Tacuinum of Rouen (Bib. municip. ms. Leber 1088)
"List of related manuscripts": p. 153
Bibliography: p. 150-152
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The advice offered by the lively images from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries featured here is sometimes comically anachronistic, but is often evidence of a remarkably modern sophistication concerning balanced eating, sleeping, and exercising."
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