The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius : a worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions / by Dániel Margócsy, Mark Somos, Stephen N. Joffe.

  • Margócsy, Dániel
Date:
[2018]
  • Books

About this work

Description

This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius' 'De humani corporis fabrica'. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. This book sheds a fresh light on the book's vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

Publication/Creation

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Physical description

xix, 517 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

A valuable book -- Provenance -- Reading and annotating the Fabrica : the sporadic reader -- Censorship : controlling reading.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DA.B.AA5
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9789004336292
  • 900433629X