Ibn Butlan | Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt, Strassburg, 1533

Ibn Butlan

Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt. I Erstlich durch bewarung der sechs neben natürlichen Ding. Als des Luffts den gesundtlicher weiß yn und uß zu Athemen. II Zum anderen durch erkantnussz cur und hynlegung aller Kranckheyten menschlichs zufalls uß Arabisch in latin und yetzt jüngst in Teütsche sprach verdolmetscht. III Zum dritten. Aller LXXXIIII. Tafelen sonderlich Regelbuch angehenckt in gemeyn und yeder dyenstlich. [Strassburg:] Johann Schott, 1533

FIRST EDITION, folio (304 x 201 mm). Collation: A⁶, B-I⁴, K⁶, L-2H⁴, 2I⁶, (lacking Y1): 135 leaves only, of 136, gothic type, full-page woodcut illustration and c. 40 woodcut frames and initials, early modern annotations, modern vellum-backed boards, title-page browned and soiled, wormholes repaired; occasional dampstaining and thumbing throughout text, last four leaves repaired at lower corner, endleaves renewed, marbled boards worn

RARE FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION of this famous medieval treatise on health, containing the sum of medical knowledge in c.1000 AD, and based on the health tables of the medieval Arab physician Ibn Butlan. The chessboard-like tables, called 'Chessboards of Health', provided medical guidance in a layout previously reserved for astronomy and law, allowing information about diagnoses, treatments, and healing to be displayed in a tabular form for the first time.

PROVENANCE:

"Caroli Pfintz[ing] de Henffenfold": early modern ownership inscription to title-page

LITERATURE:

USTC 692200; VD16 M 6776