Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
Description
- Language(s)
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Latin ; Greek, Ancient (to 1453) ; Hebrew
- Published
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Basileae : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae MDXLIII mense Iunio [June, 1543]
- Note
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Includes errata: Kk2v.
Includes index: Kk3r-Mm7v.
The historiated initials in the text are from 2 alphabets depicting nude boys engaged in various activities related to medicine and anatomy. The larger (on *2r, A1r, P1r, g5r, m4r, s2v, Ff5v) measures ca. 7.5 x 7.5 cm., the smaller ca. 3.6 x 3.6 cm. Both have double-line borders and horizontally lined backgrounds. Q of the larger alphabet (on *2r and s2v) incorporates a pig, trussed for vivisection as in the cut on Kk1r. A 3rd alphabet (ca. 2 x 2 cm.) appears in the index.
Illustrated title page and 204 illustrations in text by Jan van Calcar. Cf. Oberrheinische Buchillustration.
The gatherings are in sixes except for m and 2M which are in eights. Gathering m includes a folded leaf signed m3 and a half sheet also signed m3. Cf. Cushing.
Signatures: *⁶ A-Z⁶ a-l⁶ m⁸ n-z⁶ 2A-L⁶ 2M⁸.
Woodcut portrait of the author on *6v.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Printer's device on last page; pictorial initials; marginal notes.
Woodcut illustrated title page.
Printer's statement and date from colophon.
- Physical Description
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[10] pages, 659, that is, 663 pages, [37] pages :
illustrations (woodcuts), portrait ;
43 cm (folio)
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