![TANG SHENWEI (c.1056-1093). Xinxiu zhenghe jingshi zhenglei beiyong daguan bencao [Ready-to-use Pharmacopoeia, Classified as Collected from the Classics and Historiographical Books, of the Daguan reign]. [China, c.1271-1368.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14998_0246_001(tang_shenwei_xinxiu_zhenghe_jingshi_zhenglei_beiyong_daguan_bencao_rea043615).jpg?w=1)
![TANG SHENWEI (c.1056-1093). Xinxiu zhenghe jingshi zhenglei beiyong daguan bencao [Ready-to-use Pharmacopoeia, Classified as Collected from the Classics and Historiographical Books, of the Daguan reign]. [China, c.1271-1368.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14998_0246_000(tang_shenwei_xinxiu_zhenghe_jingshi_zhenglei_beiyong_daguan_bencao_rea101840).jpg?w=1)
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TANG SHENWEI (c.1056-1093). Xinxiu zhenghe jingshi zhenglei beiyong daguan bencao [Ready-to-use Pharmacopoeia, Classified as Collected from the Classics and Historiographical Books, of the Daguan reign]. [China, c.1271-1368.]
An illustrated Yuan Dynasty Chinese woodblock-printed herbal. The text of this materia medica was compiled in the Northern Song dynasty by Tang Shenwei, a doctor who distilled it down from over two hundred Buddhist and Daoist reference works on herbal medicine. It includes descriptions and illustrations of peppermint, lotus, chives, daffodil, and cymbidium orchid. This work was first printed in 1249 and continued to be published into the Ming Dynasty; the present copy can be stylistically dated to the Yuan dynasty.
Folio (312 x 212mm). 19 mounted double-page leaves of bamboo paper (250 x 317mm), 20 columns of 21 characters per double-page, single line border, double black fishtail folding guide, 10 woodcut illustrations (browned and stained, some small repairs). Modern teal cloth binding in traditional butterfly style, pale blue endpapers flecked with gold leaf. Provenance: Bloomsbury, 5 April 2008, lot 25 – The Helmut N. Friedlaender Collection.
An illustrated Yuan Dynasty Chinese woodblock-printed herbal. The text of this materia medica was compiled in the Northern Song dynasty by Tang Shenwei, a doctor who distilled it down from over two hundred Buddhist and Daoist reference works on herbal medicine. It includes descriptions and illustrations of peppermint, lotus, chives, daffodil, and cymbidium orchid. This work was first printed in 1249 and continued to be published into the Ming Dynasty; the present copy can be stylistically dated to the Yuan dynasty.
Folio (312 x 212mm). 19 mounted double-page leaves of bamboo paper (250 x 317mm), 20 columns of 21 characters per double-page, single line border, double black fishtail folding guide, 10 woodcut illustrations (browned and stained, some small repairs). Modern teal cloth binding in traditional butterfly style, pale blue endpapers flecked with gold leaf. Provenance: Bloomsbury, 5 April 2008, lot 25 – The Helmut N. Friedlaender Collection.