It did not serve to educate doctors, but rather to inform wealthy patients who desired to second-guess their doctors. It is based on the Taqwīm as‑siḥḥah تقويم الصحة ("Maintenance of Health"), an 11th-century Arab medical treatise by a Christian doctor of Baghdad, Ibn Butlan. See Wikipedia.
This and its companion codex Vat.lat.2426 (both date from the 14th century) arrange all this tabular material in pretty red-and-blue lattices:
This presentation seems to pre-date the absolute de-luxe versions that started coming out in Italy in about 1380 with lushly painted miniatures of country life, gardens and stately homes, the lifestyle edition so to speak.
In all there are 41 new manuscripts at the Library portal:
- Barb.lat.2653,
- Barb.lat.2814, diary 1582-89
- Reg.lat.77,
- Reg.lat.78,
- Reg.lat.104, Petrus Lombardus, Glossae continuae. eTK makes a mistake in indicating this codex contains Gynaecia, incipit Cum in Alexandria sum certatus cum auctoritatibus, at ff. 94v-99v. Reader @monicaMedHist says this is probably an error in eTK for Reg. lat. 1004, which does indeed have a text on women's medicine (Genecia) attributed to "Actius Justius."
- Reg.lat.1561,
- Reg.lat.1636,
- Urb.lat.122,
- Urb.lat.190, New in the list of @DigitaVaticana by @JBPiggin: works of the Dominican author Albert the Great. The copyist adds his own name in the colophon: "noua ec(c)l(es)ia".https://t.co/Nk3W4LbLGM pic.twitter.com/JX7XYkUqSD— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) February 5, 2018
- Vat.lat.1136,
- Vat.lat.1313,
- Vat.lat.2079,
- Vat.lat.2216,
- Vat.lat.2318,
- Vat.lat.2319,
- Vat.lat.2384 (Upgraded to HQ), medieval Latin Galen. Note the much earlier ms used for an endpaper
- Vat.lat.2390, Never particularly lovely to begin with, and now rather sad in its present state, this latest among the digitized collections of Galenica in @DigitaVaticana gives us a sense of the value of such a compendium of ancient authority. Here is the opening of @EgoConstantinus's .. 1/n pic.twitter.com/CuSRoI0CP3— Constantinus Africanus (@EgoConstantinus) February 9, 2018
- Vat.lat.2417, Creavit deus ex concavitatibus cordis sinistram; by Avicenna. See eTK
- Vat.lat.2427 (Upgraded to HQ), Tacuinum Sanitatis, popular medieval health guide (above).
- Vat.lat.2433,
- Vat.lat.2438,Another important Moerbeke MS in @JBPiggin's list: one of only three copies of his partial translation of John Philoponus' lost commentary on Aristotle's "De anima" III,4-8. (1/4)https://t.co/P0bOSvUSAf pic.twitter.com/7FpWpFYwEC— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) February 7, 2018
- Vat.lat.2447,
- Vat.lat.2449, Cum quidem iam pervenimus ad expositionem egritudinum (14c); De egritudinibus. See eTK
- Vat.lat.2495,
- Vat.lat.2548 (Upgraded to HQ), Bernardus Compostelanus, m. 1267 Apparatus in Decretales, 14th-century copy
- Vat.lat.2572,
- Vat.lat.2576,
- Vat.lat.2581,
- Vat.lat.2584,
- Vat.lat.2585,
- Vat.lat.2586,
- Vat.lat.2588,
- Vat.lat.2590,
- Vat.lat.2615,
- Vat.lat.2625 (Upgraded to HQ), Bartolus de Saxoferrato
- Vat.lat.2673,
- Vat.lat.2676,
- Vat.lat.2692, 13th-century law textbook which contains an analysis of the Iuris Canonici. For diagram history this is interesting, as fol. 50r includes a passage explaining the use of an arbor juris in working out degrees of kinship. Mentioned by Schadt in his Darstellungen der Arbores Consanguinatis.
- Vat.lat.2733,
- Vat.lat.5256 (Upgraded to HQ), Odorico da Pordonone, in Italian
- Vat.lat.13358,
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