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Introductio anatomica... Edited by Johann Stephan BERNARD (1718-1793) and Daniel Wilhelm TRILLER (1695-1782). Leiden: Phillipp Bonk, 1744.
8o (198 x 122 mm). Engraved title vignette and 3 full-page anatomical engravings on 2 leaves. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Library of Maryland (book label).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION and only illustrated edition of the Introductio Anatomica, an anonymous fourth or fifth-century Byzantine anatomical treatise first published in 1616 with a Latin translation by Peter Lauremberg (1585-1639), under whose name the work is sometimes catalogued. The 1744 edition contains "two reproductions of a naked body seen from the front and back, and of a human head; everything being marked with letters for purposes of explanation... The reproductions are taken from a Leyden MS of indefinite date [probably medieval]... Other editions of the Introductio Anatomica do not contain these figures" (Choulant-Frank, p. 43). This edition of the Introductio Anatomica, prepared by the physician and Greek scholar Johann Stephan Bernard (1718-93) and by Daniel Wilhelm Triller (1695-1782), also contains the De Corporis Partibus et Mensuris of Hypatus (pseudonym of the Byzantine physician Georgius Sanginaticius), first published in 1685. Choulant-Frank, p. 43-44.
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FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION and only illustrated edition of the Introductio Anatomica, an anonymous fourth or fifth-century Byzantine anatomical treatise first published in 1616 with a Latin translation by Peter Lauremberg (1585-1639), under whose name the work is sometimes catalogued. The 1744 edition contains "two reproductions of a naked body seen from the front and back, and of a human head; everything being marked with letters for purposes of explanation... The reproductions are taken from a Leyden MS of indefinite date [probably medieval]... Other editions of the Introductio Anatomica do not contain these figures" (Choulant-Frank, p. 43). This edition of the Introductio Anatomica, prepared by the physician and Greek scholar Johann Stephan Bernard (1718-93) and by Daniel Wilhelm Triller (1695-1782), also contains the De Corporis Partibus et Mensuris of Hypatus (pseudonym of the Byzantine physician Georgius Sanginaticius), first published in 1685. Choulant-Frank, p. 43-44.