The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Wang Ang (1615 - 1699)

Wang Ang is the author of Ben Cao Bei Yao (Materia Medica of Essential Medicinals), a medicinal book originally written in 1694 (Wang, vi). Authority - early modern
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Yi Lin Gai Cuo: Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine.
 References in Documents:
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (d) Two Chinese printed books, a present to Bargrave. B52. Missing.(The Library has two early Chinese books, whose origin is not known, but which do not seem to have been Dr Bargraves. They are (i) a Spanish-Chinese MS word-list of drug-plants, written in 1553 and (ii) Section 4 of an early 18th cent. edition of a Herbal compiled by Wang Ang, whose preface to the original edition is dated 1694. This must be at least 20 years too late for Bargrave, who died in 1680.)