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). 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.
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