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Yōso zusetsu.
廱疽圖説.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 433
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Chinese
- Subjects (All):
- Abscess--Early works to 1800.
- Abscess.
- Tumors--Early works to 1800.
- Tumors.
- Surgical instruments and apparatus--Early works to 1800.
- Surgical instruments and apparatus.
- Medicine, Chinese--Japan--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- pen and wash drawings
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Manuscripts, Chinese.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2002.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 29 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 270 x 195 mm bound to 270 x 195 mm
- Production:
- [Japan], [1600?]
- Language Note:
- Chinese.
- Summary:
- Illustrated treatise on the diagnosis of abscesses and tumors and their treatment, mostly through acupuncture or burning substances near the skin. Copied in Japan in Chinese for Japanese practitioners.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, 29 double sheet folios.
- Layout: Written in up to 10 columns of up to 24 characters.
- Script: Written in Chinese script.
- Decoration: 47 medical illustrations in colored inks and wash of partially clothed patients with tumors or abscesses; 1 illustration of a hand in connection with a discussion of calculations (f. 28r); 2 illustrations in black ink of surgical instruments (f. 25v-26r); 2 diagrams (f. 26v, 28v); and one scene showing 2 doctors examining a patient (f. 29v). Vowels, punctuation, and other guides written in red ink.
- Binding: Fukuro-toji (stitched) in later wrappers, with inscriptions on the upper cover.
- Origin: Written in Japan, ca. 1600.
- 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. 96-97 (LJS 433).
- Cited as:
- LJS 433
- OCLC:
- 792950400
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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