M0004218: Page from "Tractatus de Regimine Sanitatis" by Maimonides

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Maimonides' Tractatus de Regimine Sanitatis

A reproduction of a photograph of a page from Moses ben Maimon's (Maimonides) "Tractatus de Regimine Sanitatis" in Arabic. This was written in the form of letters to Sutan Malek el-Afdhal Ibin Saladin, the first Ayyubite Sultan of Egypt, on diet and personal hygiene. The external reference for this is: MS Bodleian Hunt 427, Oxford

27 April 1935

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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