Manuscript Monday: LJS 49 – Rawḍat al-adhhān fī maʻrifat tashrīḥ badan al-insān

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 49, Rawḍat al-adhhān fī maʻrifat tashrīḥ badan al-insān, by Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad. This manuscript was written in Persia, A.H. 813 (1411), in Persian and Arabic. It is a later copy, probably in the hand of the author, of an anatomy treatise originally written in 1396, with chapters on bones, nerves, veins, arteries and muscles, and complex organs.

You can see the full online facsimile of this work in Penn in Hand and you can download all of the images and metadata from OPenn.  You can also download a copy of this video from ScholarlyCommons, the University of Pennsylvania’s open access institutional repository.

 

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