The four seasons of the House of Cerruti
By: translated by Judith Spencer.
Contributors: Spencer, Judith.; Ibn Buṭlān, d. ca. 1068.
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek; Materia medica -- Early works to 1800; Materia medica -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Austria -- Vienna; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
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.