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Shi si jing fa hui.
十四経発揮.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 389
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Hua, Shou, active 1360-1370.
- Language:
- Chinese
- Subjects (All):
- Blood--Circulation--Early works to 1800.
- Blood.
- Blood--Circulation.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Manuscripts, Chinese.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd., cat. 23 (2000), no. 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (7, 24, 23 leaves) : paper, illustrations ; 310 x 180 (245 x 180) mm bound to 310 x 180 mm
- Production:
- [China], [after 1528]
- Language Note:
- Chinese.
- 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.
- Layout: Written in 12 columns of 24 characters.
- Script: Written in kaishu script.
- Foliation: Paper, 54 double sheet folios; [Vol. 1, 1-7; Vol. 2, 8-24; Vol. 3, 25-54]; no foliation marked on leaves.
- 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)
- Binding: Modern paper covers, sewn.
- Origin: Written in China after 1528 (date of preface).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 94-95, 97 (LJS 389).
- Cited as:
- Oversize LJS 389
- OCLC:
- 792896831
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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