Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:: 09 May 1932

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/24

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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op ee ee ae Re aT ee eh eR ee ae ee ee ee “4 . > BERENGARIUS, ANATOMIA, (1530), “ THE COPY OF ONE OF VESALIUS’ PUPILS AT PADOVA, e..” SHOWING IMPORTANT HANDWRITTEN REFERENCES iq TO VESALIUS’ LECTURES. : BERENGARIO, Jacobo, da Carpi. Isagogae breves et exactissimae in anatomiam humani cor- poris, per illustrem medicum Carpum, in ineclyto Bononiensi gymnasio, ordinarium Chy- . rurgiae professorem. 1 blank leaf, 136 leaves. With 24 partly full page woodcuts of E anatomical interest. 8vo. There are bound at the end of the book about hundred blank . leaves, most apparently for annotations by the book’s owner. Original vellum. (Strassburg, * H. Sybold, 1530). Swiss Frs. 1.550.— bes se Choulant-Frank, p. 140 (Without having seen a copy citing this very edition only from :, hearsay). By Our copy of this extremely rare and most interesting work offers a aeotal point of attraction of quite unique interest as being a copy which belonged to one of Vesalius’ pupils showing numerous important annotations by the hand of this student. The fact that the former owner of this copy was one of Vesalius’ pupils, is clearly shown from the following handwritten annotation which is to be found on folio N 3 where ‘ there is the chapter on the ‘‘sutura sagittalis ’? (De anatomia ven- tris supremi), reading as follows: ‘‘ Mense jannuario MDXLIJ Menge Nhynay Ww uidj patauij, cranium cui deerat oino sutura sagittalis, qd raris- x ; ae et bs simu e visu, Vesalio id ostendente: ~ ”’. This important an- M D Ly ‘mM ; notation of one of Vesalius’ pupils proves to us that Vesalius a “2 in the month of nae 1542 lectured on the ehatony of the the Scho Medi ; y onserva an ey e egos 2)... Saw Vesalius disecoting. a ‘skull. According to Singer, Evolution ; a of Anatomy, Vesalius’ studies on the anatomy of the skull and « hei etree the brain were of an ‘‘ absolutely pioneer character ’’. The nu- “nifu Vala ho , . merous medical annotations are written in nice, clear handwriting. 4 ; Berengario’s Isagoge is one of the rarest and undoubtedly the offend most important of the very few pre-vesalian anatomical works. ° It is an anatomic compendium intended to take the place of Mundinus’ Compendium (published in 1521). The only two - editions preceding the above 1530-edition, were published at Bologne in 1522, 1523. Both editions are of outstanding rarity. The first six plates represent the abdominal muscles. They are full page plates. Plate 7 represents the figure of a sitting woman. Her abdominal cavity is cut open and shows the spermatic vessels, the ovaries, etc. Plate 8 shows the schematic uteri. Plates 9, 10, 11 five, partly full page figures of the heart. Plates 12 and 13 show the ‘ Dura mater’ and the ‘centrum medullae cerebri’. Plates 14 and 15 represent the spinal column. Figure 16 and 17 show the anatomy of the arm; figure 18 that of the leg and the foot. Figures 19, 20 and 21 show a man with a rop in the hand, the side view of a man and the back of a man. Figures 22 and 23 represent the front and back view of a skeleton. Figure 24 shows the bones of the hand and the foot. A most careful comparison of the 1530-edition with a copy of the 1523 Bologna-edition,; now in our possession, proves undoubtedly that Sybold’s edition has been printed from the augmented 1523-edition and not from that of 1522 as says Choulant-Frank, There are a few quires browned towards the end of the book. A light, insignificant waterstain only on the bottom margins of the first six leaves. A very fine and unusually fresh copy in the best untouched condition of the following unusual size: 151 x 98 mm.— — See reproduction of one of the annotations above. i R. L | E R & Oe : 7 FIRENZE (126) Italy = Via dei Bardi, 32 * Telegraphic and Cable Address: Lierco=Firenze. “