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A Persian Anatomical Image in a non-Muslim Manuscript from Gujarat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2012

Dominik Wujastyk
Dominik Wujastyk
Affiliation:
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library
Information
Medical History , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2007 , pp. 237 - 242
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2007. Published by Cambridge University Press

References

1 Karl Sudhoff, ‘Anatomische Zeichnungen (Schemata) aus dem 12. und 13. Jh. und eine Skelettzeichnung des 14. Jhrs.’, Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, 1907, 1: 49–65; Karl Sudhoff, ‘Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts’, Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, 1908, 4: 52–73; E Seidel and Karl Sudhoff, ‘Drei weitere anatomische Fünfbilderserien aus Abendland und Morgenland’, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 1910, 3: 169–83.

2 Roger French, ‘An origin for the bone text of the “Five-figure Series”’, Sudhoffs Archiv, 1984, 68: 143–56; Emilie Savage-Smith, ‘The depiction of human anatomy in the Islamic world’, in Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith, Science, tools & magic. Part one: Body and spirit, mapping the universe, vol. 12 of Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, 2 vols, London, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 14–24; Dominik Wujastyk, ‘Interpréter l'image du corps humain dans l'Inde pré-moderne’, in Véronique Bouillier and Gilles Tarabout (eds.), Images du corps dans le monde hindou, Collection Monde Indien, Sciences sociales, 15–20 siècle, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2002, ch. 2, pp. 71–99, plates I–V.

3 C A Storey, Persian literature, a bio-biblio-graphical survey, London, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1958–[1997], vol. 2, pp. 226–8.

4 See Sergei Tourkin, ‘Astrological images in two Persian manuscripts’, in Nigel Allan (ed.), Pearls of the Orient: Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library, London and Chicago, Serindia Publications, 2003, pp. 73–85, and especially the description of Wellcome MS Persian 373, which shows mixed Indian and Persian cultural influences.

5 Ajit Mookerjee, Kundalini, the arousal of the inner energy, London, Thames and Hudson, 1982, p. 15.