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Human body with anatomical terms. The writing is in a good professional hand. From a Persian manuscript with a seal bearing the words: Murajiah va taftish shud. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_body_with_anatomical_terms,_Persian,_1893_Wellcome_L0012605.jpg

From a manuscript dated 1893 with a seal which bears the words: Murajiah va taftish shud. Found on the Wellcome digital library: https://wellcomecollection.org/works

Very nice collection of Anatomical Illustrations, can be accessed from here: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm . The three plates below are from "Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme" by Marc Jean Bourgery (1797-1849). The book was published in Paris in 1831-1854. However, this is by no means the only book to be found here: The collection is huge, with ninety-five individual titles represented, …