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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Kingin Seisaku Zumaki : [manuscript], [approximately 1835]. 金銀製作図卷
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Japanese picture scroll illustrating the casting of sen (past currency, roughly the equivalent of 1/100 yen); images include: breaking up ore, roasting, tartara bellows, etc.
mssHM 82859
![Kinginzan Funai Shikioka Kahōzu[?] : [manuscript], [approximately 18th or 19th century]. 金銀山敷内敷[?]稼方図](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4ATGBOJ%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Picture scroll of Japanese mining and ore processing; images depict: entrance to the mine, work in the mine, exit from the mine, crushing of ore, workshops, transport, etc.
mssHM 82855
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An apparently unpublished treatise on gold refining. The unknown author describes recipes for different methods of refining and assaying, giving practical advice as to what type of vessels and what type of ovens to use. He seems to have been a master of a mint, as he appends two long lists, one of silver, the other of gold coins issued from various Italian, French, Hungarian, German and English mints, and all current in Italy in 1526. He lists the alloys and the correct weights of more than 100 different coins. Includes one marginal sketch of a test tube. In Italian.
mssHM 72879
![Shokubutsu Zu : [manuscript], [approximately 1800]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4QGA5QT%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Full page illustrations of plants/grains; Latin names given in Roman alphabet, Japanese names provided in both Katakana and Kanji; placards indicating name(s) of each grain/plant appears to be much later addition (attached directly to pages with adhesive); otherwise, no written script -- only illustrations; inserted tag suggests that the two volumes may have been intended to be part of a larger work.
mssHM 81222
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Also enclosed: Scroll of warrant for opening the chest deposited in the Crown Room of Edinburgh supposed to contain the Regalia of Scotland (mssHM 2011).
mssHM 25063-24069
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Handwritten and illustrated book in Japanese on smallpox. The 29 double pages are mounted to an accordion-style book with stiff pages, and contain 27 hand-colored illustrations, many of which show the disease in three-dimension. The Kanbun text is handwritten. The book is covered in satin brocade with a paper title slip. Housed in a silk folding sleeve, also with paper title slip.
mssHM 82443