Details

Subjects:

Blood -- Circulation -- Early works to 1800.
Blood -- Circulation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Digital.
Manuscripts, Chinese.

Language:

Chinese.

Summary:

14th-century treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of blood vessels, as organized at the end of the 15th century by Xue Kai, who added a commentary. Includes an additional preface written by Sheng Yingyang in year 7 of the Jiajing period (1528). The manuscript is on bamboo paper mounted on modern paper.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 12 columns of 24 characters.
Script: Written in kaishu script.
Foliation: Paper, 54 double sheet folios; [Vol. 1, 1-7; Vol. 2, 8-24; Vol. 3, 25-54]; no foliation marked on leaves.
Decoration: 14 medical drawings in ink of human figures (Vol. 2: f. 13v, 15v, 18v, 23v, 26v, 28v, 31v; Vol. 3: f. 36v, 39v, 41v, 44v, 48v, 51v, 54v)
Binding: Modern paper covers, sewn.
Origin: Written in China after 1528 (date of preface).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 23 (2000), no. 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 94-95, 97 (LJS 389).

Cited as:

Oversize LJS 389

Contributor:

Xue, Kai, active 1488-1505.
Sheng, Yingyang.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

792896831

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page