Accession No

6221

Brief Description

Manuscript page from Arabic book with later illustration depicting a scene of five men performing abdominal surgery; page is probably late 18th/early 19th century, illustration is much later, probably 20th century

Origin

Maker

Class

manuscripts; medical

Earliest Date

1750

Latest Date

2000

Inscription Date

Material

paper; paint

Dimensions

length 270mm; height 185mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Gallery Antique, Divanyola Caddesi No. 17, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey in 11/2006.

Inscription

[Arabic text needs translating]

Description Notes

Manuscript page from Arabic book with later illustration depicting a scene of five men performing abdominal surgery.

Scene is painted in colour, including metallic gold paint. It shows five men wearing turbans around a table, upon which a man is undergoing an operation. Three men hold medical instruments, a third holds a section of the patient’s intestine and the other holds a book.

Arabic text accompanies the image, with two stamps also in Arabic.

The page and the (Ottoman?) text on its reverse is probably late 18th/early 19th century; the illustration on the front is painted over the original text and is much later, probably 20th century.

More research needs to be done on the Arabic/Ottoman text to determine the text from which this page is taken.

Condition fair; page is dirty and discoloured with water marks and some wear to the page edges.

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