The Resource Yogaratnakara
Yogaratnakara
Resource Information
The item Yogaratnakara represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Yogaratnakara represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Book manuscript, written about 1750 in Pali-Sinhalese on the prepared leaves of a talipot palm. It is a copy of the famous work on Sinhalese medicine originally compiled several centuries before. The painted wooden covers and ivory medallion decorated with the sacred bo tree symbols are old, but the binding cord is modern after an early type by a native artist
- Language
- sin
- Extent
- 450 leaves; each leaf approx. 45.4cm x 3.1cm
- Note
- Item was donated with a contemporary stylus of the type that could have been used to write the text on the palm leaves. (Museum catalog number 961-MISC)
- Label
- Yogaratnakara
- Title
- Yogaratnakara
- Language
- sin
- Summary
- Book manuscript, written about 1750 in Pali-Sinhalese on the prepared leaves of a talipot palm. It is a copy of the famous work on Sinhalese medicine originally compiled several centuries before. The painted wooden covers and ivory medallion decorated with the sacred bo tree symbols are old, but the binding cord is modern after an early type by a native artist
- Action
- Item was originally catalogued in the museum collection as number 964-MISC. It was transferred to the Library collection on May 17, 2019, for preservation reasons.
- Citation source
- Wade, Ella. "A Curator's Story of the Mütter Museum and College Collections." Transactions and Studies of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Fourth Series 42, no.2 (October 1974): 152
- Language note
- Pali-Sinhalese
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Medicine, Sinhalese
- Medicine, Ayurvedic
- Label
- Yogaratnakara
- Note
- Item was donated with a contemporary stylus of the type that could have been used to write the text on the palm leaves. (Museum catalog number 961-MISC)
- Carrier category
- other
- Carrier category code
-
- nz
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- xxx
- Content type code
-
- other
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 450 leaves; each leaf approx. 45.4cm x 3.1cm
- Immediate source of acquisition
- Dr. Casey Wood
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Yogaratnakara
- Note
- Item was donated with a contemporary stylus of the type that could have been used to write the text on the palm leaves. (Museum catalog number 961-MISC)
- Carrier category
- other
- Carrier category code
-
- nz
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- xxx
- Content type code
-
- other
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 450 leaves; each leaf approx. 45.4cm x 3.1cm
- Immediate source of acquisition
- Dr. Casey Wood
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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