Extent: 29 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 270 x 195 mm bound to 270 x 195 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Paper, 29 double sheet folios. Layout: Written in up to 10 columns of up to 24 characters. Script: Written in Chinese script. Decoration: 47 medical illustrations in colored inks and wash of partially clothed patients with tumors or abscesses; 1 illustration of a hand in connection with a discussion of calculations (f. 28r); 2 illustrations in black ink of surgical instruments (f. 25v-26r); 2 diagrams (f. 26v, 28v); and one scene showing 2 doctors examining a patient (f. 29v). Vowels, punctuation, and other guides... Binding: Fukuro-toji (stitched) in later wrappers, with inscriptions on the upper cover. Origin: Written in Japan, ca. 1600. Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
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