Arabic in the Sciences
Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa, the Tables of Health
تقويم الصحّة
Ibn Butlan's Tables of Health – tables on keeping healthy through food, air, sleep and exercise – were translated in Sicily in the 13th century and became the Tacuinum sanitatis – simply its Arabic title, taqwim al-sihha, in Latin form – that Italian painters later illustrated so famously.
- Author
- Ibn Butlan (d. c. 1063)
- Field
- Medicine
- Arabic title
- تقويمُ الصِّحّة
- Latin title
- Tacuinum sanitatis
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Sources
- Arabic and Latin Corpus (Würzburg): Almanac of Health, Latin (with links to Strasbourg 1531 and the Arabic MS BL Or. 1347)
- Strasbourg 1531 edition, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digitised
- H. S. Paris, M.-C. Daunay & J. Janick, 'The Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae illustrated in medieval manuscripts known as the Tacuinum Sanitatis', Annals of Botany 103 (2009)
- Harvard, Medieval Medical Manuscripts project: Tacuinum sanitatis (BnF lat. 9333)
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