Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish.

Title:

Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish.
کتاب حشايش

Creator:

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos

Date:

A.H. 1004 (1595)

Description:

Illustrated herbal with detailed descriptions 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.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts, 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Herbals
Watercolors (paintings)
Materia medica--Early works to 1800
Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800
Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Medicine, Greek and Roman

Geographic region:

Deccan, India

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, November 1998.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Extent:

Written in up to 15 long lines (text block varies to accommodate illustrations); ruled in drypoint.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

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Identifier:

Oversize LJS 278

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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