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Title

Facsimile of LJS 278, Kitāb-i ḥashāʼish

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

5-5-2015

Files

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.

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

See More at Penn in Hand

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