MUNDINUS [i e MONDINO DE LUZZI] Anatomia Mundini 1541 Lack

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PRE-VESALIAN ANATOMY MUNDINUS [i. e., MONDINO DE' LUZZI]. Anatomia Mundini. 46 woodcut illustrations, most full-page. [4], 67, [1] leaves, including final blank; lacks I3. 4to, modern vellum with morocco lettering piece; occasional marginal soiling and minor stains, inscriptions on title and scattered marginalia in early hand, minor repair in blank gutter of title, blank upper and outer margins of I2 trimmed, final blank remargined; cloth folding case. Marburg: Christian Egenolph, [1541]

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most extensively illustrated edition of the first book devoted to anatomy, edited by Johann Dryander (1500-60), "generally regarded as among the first anatomists who made illustrations after their own dissections" (Choulant-Frank), with woodcuts derived mainly from his own works and from the 1521 commentary on Mundinus by Berengario da Carpi. Other early editions are minimally illustrated if at all. Written in 1316 and first published in 1478, "Mondino's book dominated anatomy for over two hundred years . . . His text was the first book written during the Middle Ages that was based on the dissection of the human cadaver; his efforts consolidated anatomy as a part of the medical program at Bologna" (DSB). Garrison-Morton 361 (original edition); Durling 3233 (this edition); Choulant-Frank, pages 95 and 149; DSB IX, 467-69; Sarton III, 842-45; Singer, A Short History of Anatomy, pages 98-99.