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- Title
Mansur ibn Ilyas (1380–1422 AD): A Persian anatomist and his book of anatomy, Tashrih-i Mansuri.
- Authors
Zarshenas, Mohammad M.; Mehdizadeh, Alireza; Zargaran, Arman; Mohagheghzadeh, Abdolali
- Abstract
A Persian scholar, Mansur ibn Elyas, a late 14th century anatomist and physician from Shiraz, published his illustrated book on anatomy. Mansur’s anatomy (Tashrih-i Badan-i Insan) was written following the Mansur’s medical synopsis, Kefaye Mojahedieh. The book of Mansur is believed to be the first anatomical illustrated manuscript containing two-dimensional pictures of the human body. This 14th-century treatise is composed in Persian and is organized into five articles on the skeleton, nerves, muscles, veins and arteries, each illustrated with a full page diagram and with a final chapter including an image of a pregnant woman delivering a breech baby. These chapters have description part and related figure involving brief explanation. Mansur’s illustrations were often used in other Persian or Arabic medical manuscripts for at least two centuries in Persia.
- Subjects
MANSUR Ibn Elyas; ANATOMISTS; TASHRIH-i Mansuri (Book); PERSIAN medicine; MEDICAL biography
- Publication
Journal of Medical Biography, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0967-7720
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0967772013479474