Illustration of skeps, late 14th century
Tacuinum Sanitatis, Lombardy (Biblioteca Casanatensis, Rome)
The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on wellness, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ("Maintenance of Health"), an 11th-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad, the manuscripts of which are characteristically illustrated.
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