Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
Alternative Title:
Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
Description:
In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
All three texts translated into Italian by Sebastiano Manilio., Illustrated with 10 full-page Venetian woodcuts; one of which, The Dissection, is printed in color., and Yale Med copy imperfect: leaf 1 wanting and supplied in facsimile.
Manuscript., Arabic., Date of copying 939 H/1532 or 1533 M (but more likely 12/18 cent.), In neat, medium size naskh; 10.5x18.5 cm.; the written surface measures 6.5x13 cm., 17 lines per page. Paper is brittle, light brown with some glazing., and "Tammat al-maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālinūs fī ʻamal al-tashrīḥ"--Colophon.
Leaves [5] and [6] unfold to a plate 47 x 32 cm.: two anatomical woodcuts with explanatory text., First leaf printed in red, leaf [14] a genuine blank., and Med: Contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Ibn Ilyās, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1384 ابن إلياس، منصور بن محمد، fl. 1384
Published / Created:
1709]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-8
Image Count:
73
Alternative Title:
Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān and تشريح بدن إنسان
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., An illustrated treatise on human anatomy, usually referred to as Tashrīh-i Mansūrī (Mansūr's Anatomy) Copied 14 Muḥarram 1121? H/March 27, 1709 in large nastaʻlīq. The 35 folios measure 20.2 cm x 30 cm. The written surface measures 13.5 cm x 23.5 cm, 14 lines to page. Contains 4 anatomical, multicolor illustrations. The wove paper is of brown color. Modern buckram binding. Incipit: "Rabbi yassir. Bismi Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Wa-timm bi-khayr." End: Taḥrīr fī al-tārīkh 14 Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat 3 julūs-i Pādishāh Shāh Bahādur, khallada Allāh mulkahu." Provenance: John F. Fulton, June 19, 1951. Call no.: Or. Persian Ms. S-8., and Digital version available;
Ibn Ilyās, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad, fl. 1384 ابن إلياس، منصور بن محمد، fl. 1384
Published / Created:
14--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-14
Image Count:
56
Alternative Title:
Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān and تشريح بدن إنسان
Description:
Manuscript., Persian., Copied in ca. IX cent. H/XV cent. CE. 25 folios in medium size naskh, illustrated with 6 full page anatomical figures, pen drawn in various colours, among them being one representing the arterial system of a pregnant woman. The written surface measures 17x13 cm; 25 lines per page. Catchwords and headings in red; Indian influence noticeable; laid paprer is brown. Ref. Ullmann, Medizin, p. 180. Provenance-Cushing Persian Ms. 14., An illustrated treatise on human anatomy, usually referred to as Tashrīh-i Mansūrī (Mansūr's Anatomy); dedicated to Sultan Ziyāʾ al-Ḥaqq wa-al-Salṭanah wa-al-Dīn Amīr Zād Pīr Muḥammad Bahādur (fol. 2a, lines 3-4), who is probably Pīr Muhammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Tīmūr, the Timurid ruler of Fars from 1393-1409., and Digital version available;
