COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL022167tr
Reference Number:
Japanese 228
Image Title:
Pomegranates
Parent Work Title:
Taishuen somokufu
Translated Parent Work Title:
Botanical album
Date Created:
c1785-1792
Description:
Manuscript executed by the wife of the Emperor's physician and given to Isaac Titsingh by her. Medicinal properties of plants: pomegranates.
Language Code:
jpn
Subject:
Herbs--Therapeutic use
Subject:
Botany
Subject:
Natural History
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Illustrated works
Technique Used:
Painting (image-making)
Item Height:
390 mm
Item Width:
232 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Titsingh, Isaac, former owner
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Notes:
Finding aids: published catalogue, P.F. Kornicki, `The Japanese Collection in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 75, no. 2 (1993), pp. 209-300.
Image Creation Technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, May 2005
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Pomegranates
