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

Title

Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish.
[کتاب حشايش]

Authors

• Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
  ديسقوريدس

Other related names

• Digby, Simon, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)

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://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs278.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025262 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36w9694p

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17th century?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Bifolia and folia from a disbound 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 and the leaves are not in order, and have been paginated out of order: it comprises text and illustrations from parts of Discourse 1, substantial parts of Discourses 2-4, and parts of Discourse 5. Many leaves have extensive repairs at the edges or corners.

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

• Formerly owned by British scholar, translator, and collector Simon Digby (1932-2010).
   
• Offered for sale at David Carritt Limited (London) in the Artemis Group exhibition Indian painting 1525-1825, 1 April-30 April 1982, no. 17.
   
• Sold by Simon Digby to Sam Fogg Ltd. (Sam Fogg).
   
• 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

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

Genres

• Pictorial works
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• herbals (reference sources)
• watercolors (paintings)
• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works

Keywords

• 16th century
• Persian
• India
• Illustration
• Missing leaves
• Paper
• Science

Licenses

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