Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish.
[کتاب حشايش]

Authors

• Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
  ديسقوريدس

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 278
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949183233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/792741095
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4918323 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs278.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1004 (1595)

Place

Deccan, India

Summary

Illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals. The manuscript is not complete: it comprises text and illustrations from parts of Chapter 1, substantial parts of Chapters 2-4, and parts of Chapter 5. Many leaves have extensive repairs at the edges or corners. The manuscript seems never to have been bound.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

172 leaves : 400 x 260 mm

Foliation

Paper, 172 leaves; [i, 1-35, 37, i, 38-116, i-ii, 117-217, i, 218-234, 237-240, 243-244, 247-266, 269-276, 280-303, 308-327, 330-335, 335-336, 336-338, 340, 340-355]; modern foliation in pencil, usually in the lower margin.

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in up to 15 long lines (text block varies to accommodate illustrations); ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, November 1998.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Materia medica--Early works to 1800
• Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800
• Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Greek and Roman

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Herbals
• Watercolors (paintings)

Licenses

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