Autumn
ca. 1390 · paint and/or ink on vellum
Dimensions 100 × 87 cm
Autumn (Autumpnus) Nature: Moderately cold in the second degree. Optimum: Its central period. Usefulness: when one proceeds gradually toward opposites, ar for example, toward warmth and dampness. Dangers: It is harmful to moderate temperatures and to those predisposed toward consumption. Neutralization of the Dangers: By the application of moist elements, and with baths. Effects: Increases melancholy humors. It is suitable to warm and damp temperaments, to the young and adolescent, in warm and damp regions, or in temperate areas.
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Autumn (ca. 1390) by Ibn Butlan (Tacuinum Sanitatis), paint and/or ink on vellum.
About Ibn Butlan (Tacuinum Sanitatis)
bn Butlan (1038-1075) was an Arab Nestorian Christian physician who was active in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa (Maintenance of Health) is originally an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad.
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