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

Contributor:

Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Kālīḥār al-Daylamī, active 1524 (reader)

Name:

Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1411

Description:

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.

Language:

Persian

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.; Muḥammad Riz̤ā, active 1860, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs49.html; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338698: Video orientation; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338698; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Medicine, Persian; Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800; Human anatomy; Medicine, Persian -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises; Diagrams; Autographs (manuscripts); Codices; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

i, 30, i leaves : paper, illustrations; 250 x 168 (184 x 105) mm bound to 257 x 185 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Persian anatomist and physician.; 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).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian and Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 49

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)