IM-13404: Privately Printed Leaf book with an original leaf from a scarce 1533 German translation of an Arabic 11th century book on Hygiene, the Schachtafelender Gesuntheyt.
Edmund Simpson, “A Leaf from Schachtafelender Gesuntheyt of 1533”, privately printed by the Blackwood Press, Beaverton Oregon, 1990.
Folio in original wrappers, one of only seventy-two copies.
The included original leaf, with contemporary colored woodcut designs, was printed in Strassbourg in 1533 by Hans Schotten from the German translation by Michael Hero of the Arabic treatise on Dietetics and Hygiene written in the 11th century by Ibn Butlan.
Ibn Butlan was an Arab Christian Physician and theologian from Baghdad. He later became a monk in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene was produced in intricate tabularform as evidenced on the enclosed leaf, and was one of the last Arabic medical treatises to be translated into Latin and disseminated in Europe until the 16th century.
The original leaf measures 7.5 x 11.5 inches, and is printed on both sides.
A scarce early printing of a medical leaf with ties to Eastern medieval and Renaissance European practices.
