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Pearls of the Orient : Asian treasures from the Wellcome Library / edited by Nigel Allan. - London : Serindia, 2003. - 215 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

"The Wellcome Trust"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rare series of Tibetan banners / Illustrations of ethnic groups in southwestern China / Japanese medical books and illustrations / Gyurme Dorje -- Hartmut Walravens -- Peter F. Kornicki. Henry Wellcome and the Asian collections / Marriage Hebrew style / Nature of image veneration in Armenia / Between meaning and image : Islamic calligraphy / Astrological images in two Persian manuscripts / Love of Krsna in poems and paintings / 'Reading' Indian manuscript paintings from Punjab / Illustrations from the life of the Buddha / Monk travels to heaven and hell / Nigel Allan -- Nigel Allan -- Vrej Nersessian -- Nikolaj Serikoff -- Sergei Tourkin -- Dominik Wujastyk -- Jeevan Singh Deol -- William Pruitt, Peter Nyunt -- Henry Ginsburg.

ISBN: 9780906026601

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine--Catalogs.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Miniaturen (handschriften)
Oosterse handschriften.
Handschriftenverzamelingen.
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Library.
Art--England--London--Catalogs.
Art, Asian--Catalogs.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Asian--Catalogs.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
4.240.
5.

LC Class. No.: N 7262 .P43 2003