University of Pennsylvania, LJS 49
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS734
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 49
- Title:
- Rawḍat al-adhhān fī maʻrifat tashrīḥ badan al-insān.
- Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century / منصور بن محمد بن احمد، active 14th century
- Place:
- Persia
- Date:
- A.H. 813 (1411)
- Language:
- Persian and Arabic
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 30, i leaves : paper, illustrations ; 250 x 168 (184 x 105) mm bound to 257 x 185 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Muḥammad Riz̤ā, active 1860 / محمد رضا، active 1860،
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- 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.
Origin: Written in Persia in A.H. 813 (1411; colophon, f. 29).
Collation: Paper, i (later endleaf) + 30 + i (later endleaf).
Binding: Later red leather, undecorated; stencilled pastedowns.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Sold at Sotheby's, 18 October 1995, lot 51.
Formerly owned by Muḥammad Riz̤ā (note dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1277 [1860 CE], f. 1r).
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).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 1996, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Sold at Sotheby's, 18 Oct. 1995, lot 51.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948058763503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30h1j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
