Monthly Archives: August 2010

Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook

Posted on August 6, 2010 by jwang

NLM “Turning The Pages” Adds Richly Illustrated Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, announces the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical … Continue reading →

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Mauritania’s hidden manuscripts

Posted on August 2, 2010 by jgreen

Precious Arabic manuscripts from western Africa are under threat as Mauritania’s desert libraries vanish Pages of history … reading an ancient Koranic manuscript in Chinguetti. Photograph: Remi Benali/Corbis The bone-dry wood creaks as the book opens at a page representing … Continue reading →

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