SC - Re: SC-Olives, and I've got a new book

[Decker, Terry D.]

IIRC, The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti is a decent modern
translation of a 14th Century translation and commentary of an 11th Century
work by Ibn Butlan, On the Management of Diseases for the Most Part Through
Common Foodstuffs and Medicine for the Use of Monks of the Cloister and
Whoever is Far From the City.  (I had to check a crib sheet for that one.)

Ibn Butlan (d. 1066) was a Christian physician originally from Baghdad who
travelled widely in the Middle East before settling in Antioch and becoming
a monk.  He is supposedly the Ellbochasim mentioned in The Four Seasons.

I only have a few excerpts from the book, but what I have seen is
worthwhile.

Bear


> Funny you should bring this up.  I just got a new book (new to me, it is a
> used book) it is titled:
> Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti trans. by Judith Spencer.  It is said
> to be a facsimile of I think a 13 or 14th century manuscript. <clipped>
> 
> I was going to write to the list today and ask if anyone else had looked
> over the book and what they thought about it.  I am, for now, treating it
> as a source of information that needs verifying until I can determine it's
> accuracy.
> 
> 	Angeline
> 
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