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MS P 18     Bibliographic Information

Folio 1b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the illuminated opening giving the title of the treatise in Arabic (hadha kitab Tashrih al-badan), drawn in ink and opaque watercolours.

Folio 1b
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Folio 7b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring a diagram of the cranial sutures, drawn in red and black ink.

Folio 7b
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Folio 8a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring a schematic inked diagram of the bones of the upper jaw (maxilla) with the positions of the teeth indicated.

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Folio 12b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring a hand illustrated skeleton, viewed from behind with the head hyperextended so that the mouth is at the top of the page.

Folio 12b
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Folio 18a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the nervous system, with the figure drawn from the back and the nerves indicated in opaque watercolors.

Folio 18a
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Folio 20a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring a muscle figure, shown frontally, with extensive captions describing the muscles.

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Folio 25b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the venous system, with the figure drawn frontally and the internal organs indicated in opaque watercolors.

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Folio 28a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the arterial figure, shown frontally with the internal organs indicated in opaque watercolours.

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Folio 39a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the colophon, written diagonally at the bottom of the page. On the righthand side it states that the copy was completed on 4 Muharram 894 (= 8 December 1488), with the year written in both words and numerals. On the left side it says that it was copied by Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad.

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Folio 39b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the figure of a pregnant woman. This is essentially the arterial figure on which a gravid uterus with the foetus in a breech or transverse position has been superimposed.

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MS P 19     Bibliographic Information

Folio 5a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring a diagram of the cranial suture (upper illustration), drawn in red and black ink, and a schematic diagram of the bones of the upper jaw (maxilla) with the positions of the teeth indicated.

Folio 5a
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Folio 8a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the skeleton, viewed from behind with the head hyperextended so that the mouth is at the top of the page.

Folio 8a
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Folio 11b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the nervous system, also viewed from the back with the head hyperextended. The pairs of nerves are indicated by inks of contrasting colours.

Folio 11b
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Folio 13a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the muscle figure, shown frontally, with extensive captions describing the muscles.

Folio 13a
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Folio 16b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the venous system, with the figure drawn frontally and the internal organs indicated in opaque watercolors.

Folio 16b
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Folio 18a of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the arterial figure, shown frontally with the internal organs indicated in opaque watercolor.

Folio 18a
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Folio 24b of Mansur ibn Ilyas' Tashrih-i badan-i insan, featuring the figure of a pregnant woman. This is essentially the arterial figure on which a gravid uterus with the foetus in a breech or transverse position has been superimposed. The illustration is slightly defaced.

Folio 24b
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Last reviewed: 28 July 2010
Last updated: 28 July 2010
First published: 06 January 2005
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