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BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (ca. 1460-1530). Carpi Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu eiusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictis, 1521.
4o (201 x 134 mm). Collation: Aa-Zz4 AAaa-ZZzz4 AAAaaa-ZZZzzz4 AAAAaaaa-ZZZZzzzz4 AAAAAaaaaa-ZZZZZzzzzz4 AAAAAAaaaaaa-RRRRRRrrrrrr4. 528 leaves, foliated. Title printed in red and black, roman type, shoulder notes. Title within architectural and historiated woodcut border, 21 large anatomical woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. (Title trimmed affecting border and laid down, short wormtrack crossing border at bottom, lower fore-corner of border missing, portion of register patched with some loss, few gutter margins reinforced at end, minor paper flaw on 4Cc2 crossing a few lines of text, some minor marginal dampstaining or light spotting.) Modern half vellum, marbled boards (somewhat tight in binding); modern quarter morocco folding case.
Provenance: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), the father of modern anthropology (signature on title mount verso, occasional marginalia or notes); E.F.G. Herbst; by descent to Robert M. Herbst.
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN BOOK ON ANATOMY. Berengario's Commentaria on Mondino's fourteenth-century Anatomia was the first published work to contain anatomical illustrations based on the anatomist's own dissections. In addition the Commentaria "contains the first mention of the vermiform appendix, as well as the first good account of the thymus. The description of the male and female reproductive organs, or reproduction itself, and of the foetus, is more extensive than any earlier account" (Garrison-Morton 367). It is the most important predecessor to Vesalius's Fabrica. Numerous innovations in anatomical iconography introduced in the Commentaria were later adopted by Vesalius, including the dissection vignette on the title border in which Berengario is shown dissecting a cadaver. Most importantly Berengario was the first to begin the long tradition of illustrating standing dissected figures in a naturalistic setting.
Choulant-Frank pp. 137-39; Garrison-Morton 367; Grolier Medicine 15; Herrlinger pp. 80-82; Lind pp. 159-65; NLM/Durling 530; Putti pp. 143-46; Wellcome 781; Norman 187.
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Provenance: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), the father of modern anthropology (signature on title mount verso, occasional marginalia or notes); E.F.G. Herbst; by descent to Robert M. Herbst.
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN BOOK ON ANATOMY. Berengario's Commentaria on Mondino's fourteenth-century Anatomia was the first published work to contain anatomical illustrations based on the anatomist's own dissections. In addition the Commentaria "contains the first mention of the vermiform appendix, as well as the first good account of the thymus. The description of the male and female reproductive organs, or reproduction itself, and of the foetus, is more extensive than any earlier account" (Garrison-Morton 367). It is the most important predecessor to Vesalius's Fabrica. Numerous innovations in anatomical iconography introduced in the Commentaria were later adopted by Vesalius, including the dissection vignette on the title border in which Berengario is shown dissecting a cadaver. Most importantly Berengario was the first to begin the long tradition of illustrating standing dissected figures in a naturalistic setting.
Choulant-Frank pp. 137-39; Garrison-Morton 367; Grolier Medicine 15; Herrlinger pp. 80-82; Lind pp. 159-65; NLM/Durling 530; Putti pp. 143-46; Wellcome 781; Norman 187.