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Title
週身血脉圖
Subtitle
五臟六腑形
Transcribed title
Zhoushen xuemai tu: wu zang liu fu xing
Patron
Kangxi (1654-1722), emperor 1661-1722
Note
Anatomical illustrations partly based on Thomas Bartonlin: Anatome quartum renovata (1677 or later)
Resource type
text(manuscript)
Medium
Paper
Extent
90 pp.
Size
32 x 26 cm
Languages
mnc zh
Script
Manchu
Script (detailed)
Additions in Chinese script
Place of origin
Beijing
Country of origin
cn
Date created
1700/1725
Shelf mark
Manchu 49
Collection
Oriental Collection
Selected references
Facsimile edition: Anatomie mandchoue: facsimilé du manuscrit no. II du fonds oriental de la Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague. Publié sous les auspices de Abr. Clod-Hansen par Victor Madsen; traduction du texte mandchou par Vilhelm Thomsen. Copenhague: Bibliotheque Royale, 1928 [Archival funds related to the facsimile edition: Clod-Hansen, Abraham: Optegnelser vedr. den mansjuiske Anatomi (shelf mark: NKS 1969 folio)] Johnsson, J. W. S.: L'anatomie mandchoue et les figures de Th. Bartholin, étude d'iconographie comparée. [Det kgl. danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Biologiske Meddelelser. VII. 7]. Copenhagen 1928 Fuchs, Walter & Gimm, Martin: "Die Manjurische Sammlung der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Kopenhagen" Gimm, Martin et al. (Hrsg.): Klassische, moderne und bibliographische Studien zu Mandschuforschung [Aetas Manjurica, 2] Wiesbaden 1991, pp. 42-115 Young, Kue-Hing, "French Jesuits and the ’Manchu Anatomy’ - how China missed the Vesalian Revolution". Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMA Journal), Vol. 111, September 21, 1974, pp. 565-568
Comment
Only front cover and pages with content have been digitised. For information about the discussion on the sources of the illustrations, cf. Selected references.
Also referred to as Manju 49. Former shelf mark: Mands. 2.
Provenance: Peter Arnt Kierulff (1838-1909), Danish merchant in Beijing. Acquired in 1901; donated to the Royal Library in 1906.
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