Theatrum Sanitatis, Liber magistri, Biblioteca Casanatense 4182. [ commentary volume only ]

M. Moleiro Editor, Barcelona, 1999. Cloth, 4to, 34 cm,. 326 pp, colour ills. A full-colour commentary volume in Spanish and English, including a full translation of the text of "Theatrum Sanitatis" (from a late-eleventh-century Latin codex) into each language. Theatrum Sanitatis contains a treatise on medicine that was widely disseminated in the 14th and 15th centuries. It concerns the six elements necessary for maintaining one's daily health: food and drink, air and the atmosphere, movement and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions, changes and states of mind (happiness, shame, etc). The author believes disease to stem from alterations of these six elements. Each page of the treatise features a miniature of one of these elements and a footnote stating its nature, characteristics of what is deemed to be better or preferable for human health, the benefit it offers, any adverse effects it may have and the remedy for such adverse effects. The illustration of this codex belongs to the Lombard artistic tradition, to the school of Giovanni de Grassi. This book is not only a source of interesting health information but also an iconographical source for the study of very different aspects of life in that period. Contents: Medicine as a Principle of Human Life in Galenism and the ‘Tables Of Health' by Ibn Butlan = La Medicina como norma de la Vida Humana en el Galenismo y las 'Tablas de Salud' de Ibn Butlán, by José Ma López Pinero; The Contents of the “Theatrum Sanitatis” in the Casanatense Library = El Contenido del 'Theatrum Sanitatis' de la Biblioteca Casanatense, by José Ma López Pinero; The Illustrations in the “Theatrum Sanitatis” of the Casanatense Library in Rome = Las Ilustraciones del 'Theatrum Sanitatis' de la Biblioteca Casanatense de Roma, by Felipe Jerez Moliner; 'Theatrum Sanitatis' : Translation, by Anne Barton de Mayor and Traducción by José Miguel García Calero. Near Fine in slightly used dustwrapper.