
Date of this Version
5-5-2015
Files
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Keywords
Materia medica--Early works to 1800, Botany Medical--Early works to 1800, Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800, Medicine Greek and Roman Codices, Herbals, Watercolors (paintings), Manuscripts Persian--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance
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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4918323
Link to Video
http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/5/
Link to OPENN
http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs278.html
Recommended Citation
Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 278, Kitāb-i ḥashāʼish" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 151.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/151


Comments
Illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions in multiple languages (but all written in the Persian nastaʻlīq script) 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.