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BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo. Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in Anatomiam humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 15 July 1523.
4o (206 x 144 mm). Collation: A-K8. 80 leaves, foliated. Roman type, shoulder notes in gothic type. Architectural woodcut title border, 23 large woodcut anatomical illustrations (one with some early hand-coloring), and printer's woodcut device below colophon. (D1 with marginal repair patched on verso, D8 with two large tears patched obscuring woodcut border partially on verso, internal tear on A8 crossing illustration on recto [and some lines of text on verso], some pale dampstaining and marginal soiling.) Later half sheep and speckled boards, gilt-ruled on spine with leather label. Provenance: Johannes Silvestris ("Sum Johannis Silvestri de Gennariis civitate Sancti Sepulchri", contemporary inscription on title); some early marginalia.
Second edition of Berengario's Isagogae, with three additional illustrations and some revisions to other illustrations emphasizing the anatomy of the heart and brain. It includes the first published view of the cerebral ventricles from an actual dissection (fo. 56). The title-border, showing the author conducting a dissection in the lower border, was first used in his Commentaria of 1521. In this edition the border text has been slightly altered to read "Maria" instead of "Leo P.X," and Berengario's name "Carpus" has been supplied in two places. The shield on the architrave has been changed to read "YHS," instead of the Medici coat-of-arms.
Choulant-Frank pp. 136-42; see Harvard/Mortimer Italian p. 12; Herrlinger pp. 80-83; Putti pp. 150-54; Norman 189.
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Second edition of Berengario's Isagogae, with three additional illustrations and some revisions to other illustrations emphasizing the anatomy of the heart and brain. It includes the first published view of the cerebral ventricles from an actual dissection (fo. 56). The title-border, showing the author conducting a dissection in the lower border, was first used in his Commentaria of 1521. In this edition the border text has been slightly altered to read "Maria" instead of "Leo P.X," and Berengario's name "Carpus" has been supplied in two places. The shield on the architrave has been changed to read "YHS," instead of the Medici coat-of-arms.
Choulant-Frank pp. 136-42; see Harvard/Mortimer Italian p. 12; Herrlinger pp. 80-83; Putti pp. 150-54; Norman 189.