PAUL U. UNSCHULD, Medicine in China. A history ofpharmaceutics. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1986, 4to, pp. xiii, 366, illus., £40.50. This volume ought to be called A history ofpharmacopoeias in China. It is not concerned with the actual practice in the past, accounts ofwhich might be found in letters, diaries and chronicles, even less with the industrial p...

philosophical and scientific studies, with medicine especially well represented, but the work's usefulness will not be limited to these areas. Endress and Gutas have registered every word in most of the texts they have included; their Lexicon is thus not only a dictionary of technical and scientific vocabulary, but covers ordinary discourse and literary language as well. In this regard it is ve...

following is a list of our colleagues who volunteered to review the manuscripts received to geopersia during the past 12 months. i appreciate the positive actions that you have taken to participate in reviewing the manuscripts and implementing our recommendations to get the two issues published. we certainly would not be able to continue without your support and i wish to acknowledge your conti...

In this paper a document analysis tool for historical manuscripts is proposed. The goal is to automatically segment layout components of the page, that is text, pictures and decorations. We specifically focused on the pictures, proposing a set of visual features able to identify significant pictures and separating them from all the floral and abstract decorations. The analysis is performed by b...

interesting comments by earlier owners and readers. There are two appendices, one of documents, the other an up-to-date catalogue of Giovanni's manuscripts that supersedes those by Zazzeri and by Baader. Detailed attention is given to matters codicological, although information on Giovanni's scribes is not always easy to locate in the dense entries. Splendid photographs, of the library, of Giov...

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