I Ching

Date:
c.1865
Reference:
MS.2285
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Description

Notes on Chinese divination and fortune-telling. The paper is water-marked 'T. H. Saunders 1859'. On the 13th leaf: 'Note by the translator on the complete forms. The 8 diagrams and the 64 diagrams with their names are taken from the Yih King, one of the ancient classics. The other parts of the above complete forms are of later date'. This work is entered as 'I Ching' in the B.M. Catalogue.

Publication/Creation

c.1865

Physical description

26 ll. fol. 32 x 20 cm. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1907.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 18862