Tacuinum sanitatis in medicina. Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift Codex Vindobonensis s. n. 2644 (...). Volumen VI der reihe Codices selecti.

3 vol., folio.

Text and transl. vol.: cloth; facsimile vol.: mod. blindst. leather, gilt titled spine on 5 raised bands, cloth slipcase (tiny def. at front). Very good copy.

Colour facsimile edition of this North Italian ms. handbook of medicine from the end of the 14th c., held in the National Library of Vienna. Ill. 206 full-page miniatures, showing numerous plants and animals, drugs and food, their preparation and their effect on the human organism according to classical medicine tuition. All 107 folios are cut according to the original. One of 300 numb. copies (n. 290). With commentary vol. incl. the transcription of the latin text and translations into German and English. With a finely executed translation vol. (2003) of that commentary vol. in French, by Benoît Gobbe. Bookpl. B. [Gobbe] in each vol.