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

Title

Shi si jing fa hui

Authors

• Hua, Shou, fl. 1360-1370
• Xue, Kai, fl. 1488-1505
• Sheng, Yingyang

Call number

LJS 389
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4824235
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4824235

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Chinese

Origin

Date

after 1528

Place

China

Summary

14th-century treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of blood vessels, as organized at the end of the 15th century by Xue Kai, who added a commentary. Includes an additional preface written by Sheng Yingyang in year 7 of the Jiajing period (1528). The manuscript is on bamboo paper mounted on modern paper.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

3 volumes (7, 24, 23 leaves) : 310 x 180 (245 x 180) mm. bound to 310 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, 54 double sheet folios; [Vol. 1, 1-7; Vol. 2, 8-24; Vol. 3, 25-54]; no foliation marked on leaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper covers, sewn.

Layout

Written in 12 columns of 24 characters.

Decoration

14 medical drawings in ink of human figures (Vol. 2: f. 13v, 15v, 18v, 23v, 26v, 28v, 31v; Vol. 3: f. 36v, 39v, 41v, 44v, 48v, 51v, 54v)

Script

Written in kaishu script.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 23 (2000), no. 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Blood--Circulation--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Digital
• Manuscripts, Chinese--16th century

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 13v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 13v (V.2)
• fol. 15v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 15v (V.2)
• fol. 18v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 18v (V.2)
• fol. 23v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 23v (V.2)
• fol. 26v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 26v (
• fol. 28v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 28v (V.2)
• fol. 31v (V.2) — Diagram, f. 31v (V.2)
• fol. 36v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 36v (V.3)
• fol. 39v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 39v (V.3)
• fol. 41v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 41v (V.3)
• fol. 44v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 44v (V.3)
• fol. 48v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 48v (V.3)
• fol. 51v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 51v (V.3)
• fol. 54v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 54v (V.3)