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Pearls of the Orient : Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library / edited by Nigel Allan.
- Title
- Pearls of the Orient : Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library / edited by Nigel Allan.
- Publication
- London ; Chicago : Serindia, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7262 .P43 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 215 p. : col. ill.; 31 cm.
- Summary
- "The Wellcome Library in London preserves one of the major collections in Europe of manuscripts, printed books and pictorial material relating to Asia. This is largely due to the enthusiasm and vision of the American-born pharmacist and philanthropist, Sir Henry Wellcome. Although celebrated as a library devoted to medical history and related topics, the Asian Collections document in text and illustration practically every area of human endeavour found among the many peoples and cultures of the East. The Wellcome Trust, an independent research-funding charity originating from Wellcome's will, supports the Library and its work today as an international resource for the history and understanding of medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library
- Subject
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine > Catalogs
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
- Medicine in the Arts
- Exhibitions as Topic
- Art
- Art, Asian > Catalogs
- Art > England > London > Catalogs
- Exhibitions as Topic > London > Catalogs
- Medicine in the Arts > London > Catalogs
- England
- London
- Asia
- Art > England > London > Catalogs
- Asia
- London
- Genre/Form
- Catalog
- Note
- "The Wellcome Trust."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Henry Wellcome and the Asian collections / Nigel Allan -- Marriage Hebrew style / Nigel Allan -- Nature of image veneration in Armenia / Vrej Nersessian -- Between meaning and image : Islamic calligraphy / Nikolaj Serikoff -- Astrological images in two Persian manuscripts / Sergei Tourkin -- Love of Krsna in poems and paintings / Dominik Wujastyk -- 'Reading' Indian manuscript paintings from Punjab / Jeevan Singh Deol -- Illustrations from the life of the Buddha / William Pruitt, Peter Nyunt -- Monk travels to heaven and hell / Henry Ginsburg -- Rare series of Tibetan banners / Gyurme Dorje -- Illustrations of ethnic groups in southwestern China / Hartmut Walravens -- Japanese medical books and illustrations / Peter F. Kornicki.
- ISBN
- 0906026601
- OCLC
- 51991968
- SCSB-10597014
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library