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Title

Rawḍat al-adhhān fī maʻrifat tashrīḥ badan al-insān.
روضة الاذهان في معرفة تشريح بدن الانسان

Authors

• Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century
  منصور بن محمد بن احمد،

Other related names

• Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Kālīḥār al-Daylamī, active 1524, reader
  جلال الدين بن كاليحار الديلمي،
• Muḥammad Riz̤ā, active 1860, former owner
  محمد رضا،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 49
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948058763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802407225
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4805876 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs49.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian and Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 813 (1411)

Place

Persia

Summary

Copy, probably in the hand of the author, of an anatomy treatise originally written in 1396, with chapters on bones, nerves, veins, arteries and muscles, and complex organs. Some marginal notes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

I, 30, i leaves : 250 x 168 (184 x 105) mm. bound to 257 x 185 mm

Collation

Paper, i (later endleaf) + 30 + i (later endleaf).

Support

Paper

Binding

Later red leather, undecorated; stencilled pastedowns.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines.

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.

Script

Written in naskh script, probably by the author.

Provenance

• 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.
   

Subjects topical

• Human anatomy--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Persian--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Autographs (manuscripts)
• Codices

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 15v — Diagram, f. 15v
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r