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Title:
Vinegar
Creator:
Workshop of Giovannino de Grassi, painter
Description:
The
Tacuinum sanitatis
was an eleventh-century health handbook written by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. In it he presents the elements needed for a healthful and happy life. He recommends vinegar for problems with bile and with the gums. In the fourteenth-century illustrated versions the emphasis is on picturing attractive scenes drawing on themes from courtly love, fashionable dress, and estate management for an idealized view of agriculture, food production, and healthy living. This picture shows a woman on a ladder filling a pitcher with vinegar from a large cask. A man stands on the ground watching.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public Domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Medical Manuscripts
Work
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
14
Date:
ca. late 1390s
Related Work:
Tacuinum sanitatis, a medical treatise. Also known as the Theatrum sanitatis. The manuscript is
fully digitized
on the Biblioteca Casanatense site.
Current Location:
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 4182, fol. 164
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Manuscript Illuminations
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Vellum (parchment); Paint
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
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Inscription:
Related Resources:
Cathleen Hoeniger, "The Illuminated
Tacuinum sanitatis
Manuscripts from Northern Italy ca. 1380-1400: Sources, Patrons, and the Creation of a New Pictorial Genre." Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550. Edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide. Ashgate,2006. Pp. 51-81.