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Rawḍat al-adhhān fī maʻrifat tashrīḥ badan al-insān. = روضة الاذهان في معرفة تشريح بدن الانسان.

Author/Creator:
Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century.
منصور بن محمد بن احمد، active 14th century.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
i, 30, i leaves : paper, illustrations ; 250 x 168 (184 x 105) mm bound to 257 x 185 mm
Production:
[Persia], A.H. 813 (1411)
Status/Location:
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Standardized Title:
Tashrīḥ-i Manṣūrī
تشريح منصورى http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019211181
Subjects:
Medicine, Persian.
Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
Human anatomy.
Medicine, Persian -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Persian.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Autographs (manuscripts)
Codices.
Language:
Persian and Arabic.
Biography/History:
Persian anatomist and physician.
Summary:
Copy, probably in the hand of the author, of an anatomy treatise originally written in 1396, with chapters on bones, nerves, veins, arteries and muscles, and complex organs. Some marginal notes.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (later endleaf) + 30 + i (later endleaf).
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script, probably by the author.
Decoration: Full-page anatomical diagrams of bones (f. 10r) and nerves (f. 15v); full-page color anatomical diagrams of veins (f. 19v), arteries (f. 21v), and complex organs including uterus with fetus (f. 30r); geometric diagrams in red ink (f. 6r, 6v); small diagram sketched in ink in margin (f. 5v); some words in red throughout.
Binding: Later red leather, undecorated; stencilled pastedowns.
Origin: Written in Persia in A.H. 813 (1411; colophon, f. 29).
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Read by Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Kālīḥār al-Daylamī, a doctor in the Sultan's Hospital in Iṣfahān (note dated Shawwāl 930 A.H. [1524 CE] f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Muḥammad Riz̤ā (note dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1277 [1860 CE], f. 1r).
Sold at Sotheby's, 18 October 1995, lot 51.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1996, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sold at Sotheby's, 18 Oct. 1995, lot 51.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 85-87 (LJS 49).
Cited as:
UPenn LJS 49.
Contributor:
Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Kālīḥār al-Daylamī, active 1524, reader.
Muḥammad Riz̤ā, active 1860, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
جلال الدين بن كاليحار الديلمي، active 1524، reader
محمد رضا، active 1860، former owner.
OCLC:
802407225