Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 99

MONDINO DEI LUZZI (d. 1326) Anatomia Mundini. In officina Christiani Egenolphi [1541] [4] 67 ll., 41 plates. 19.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 97

This edition of Mondino's anatomy was prepared by Johannes Dryander, called Eichmann, who is generally regarded as one of the first anatomists to make illustrations from his own dissections. This important and rare book is especially interesting for its woodcuts. Nearly half of the plates were copied from Berengario da Carpi's commentary on Mondino's Anothomia published in 1521 and most of the remaining plates are Dryander's. Many of them were taken from Dryander's Anatomiae first issued in 1537 (see No. 234) and at least six of his plates are believed to have been taken from Vesalius' Tabulae anatomicae sex. Only forty-one of the original forty-six plates are present in this copy.

See Related Record(s): 234

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, pp. 88-96; Cushing M452; Durling 3233; Osler 3439; Waller 6746; Wellcome 4486

Gift of John Martin, M.D.