BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530)

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Лот 136 | BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530)
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BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530)
Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 15 July 1523.
Second edition, expanded and revised, with additions and alternations to the woodcuts including the first published view of the cerebral ventricles from an actual dissection. Berengario, who taught anatomy and surgery at Bologna from 1507, was the first anatomist to publish treatises on anatomy based on his own dissections. Between 1521 and 1523 he issued a series of three works illustrated with woodcuts which were the first works since Galen, over a thousand years earlier, to display any considerable amount of original anatomical information based upon personal investigation and observation. Berengario's first original anatomical work was a commentary, over 1,000 pages long (528 leaves) and illustrated with a woodcut title-page and 21 full-page anatomical woodcuts, on the Anatomia of Mondino, a fourteenth-century dissection manual. He followed that work one year later with a condensation entitled Isagoge Brevis republishing the same woodcuts. This was a practical manual of dissection consisting of 72 leaves. One year later Berengario produced this revised and expanded second edition of 80 leaves with additional woodcuts, his last and definitive contribution to anatomy. The Isagogae incorporated three more anatomical woodcuts, as well as some revisions to the illustrations that appeared in the first edition. The architectural title-border was first used in Berengario's Commentaria (1521). Here it has been altered to read 'Maria' instead of 'Leo P.X.' and Berengario's surname 'Carpus' appears both in the architrave and the vignette. The shield has also been altered to read 'YHS.' The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy (1996) 38-39. Choulant-Frank, pp. 136-142; Herrlinger, pp. 80-83; Harvard/Mortimer Italian, p. 12; Norman 189; Putti, Berengario da Carpi, pp. 150-154; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 70-83.

Quarto (198 x 142mm). 80 leaves, foliated. Roman type, shoulder notes in gothic type. Architectural woodcut title border, 23 large woodcut anatomical illustrations, printer's woodcut device below colophon, a few early manuscript notes (some notes cropped, some light marginal staining). Early 20th-century crushed red half morocco, marbled boards, flat spine titled in gilt (joints rather rubbed, spine ends chipped, corners slightly bumped). Provenance: Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp [Royal Society of Medicine] to preliminary free endpaper and initials RSM to foot of spine).
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