Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

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Latin

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Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564

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South wall 10, QM21 .V418 1543e

Extent:

[12], 659 [i. e. 663], [37] p. : ill., port. (woodcuts) ; 44 cm. (fol.)

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Book

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Title-page has woodcut view of anatomical theater.
Signatures: *⁶,A-Z⁶,a-o⁶,p⁶(-p5),q-z⁶,2A-2L⁶, 2M⁸.
Publisher and date from colophon; "Mense Iunio." appears after publication date; printer's device on colophon verso.
Errors in pagination as per Cushing, VI.A.-1.
Errata notes on 2K2v.
Register on p. [35] at end.
The illustrations are from designs attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian.
Includes index; printed marginal notes surrounding text block.
"Cum Caesareae Maiest. Galliarum Regis, ac Senatus Veneti gratia & priuilegio, ut in diplomatis eorundem continetur."
"Typographus Lectori" on p. [10], in front.
Ex copy: Contains leaf of anatomical figures intact plus all 8 figures colored and mounted, these latter having been taken from another source.

Publisher:

Basileae : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae MDXLIII. [1543].

Subject:

Human anatomy—Early works to 1800
Human anatomy—Atlases—Early works to 1800
Physiology—Early works to 1800
Blood-vessels—Early works to 1800
Nerves—Early works to 1800
Atlases

Author:

Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564

Created:

1543-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

1543

Type:

Atlases

Location:

Special Collections South wall 10, QM21 .V418 1543e

Identifier:

ark:/88435/vt150t68p

Edm rights:

No Known Copyright

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Logical
Front Matter
Preface
Epistole
Book 1
Chapter 1: Quid os, quis'que ipsius usus & differentia
Chapter 2: Quid cartilago, et quis carti, laginis usus & differentia
Chapter 3: Nomina quibus ossium par, tes sedesq indicantur
Chapter 4: De ossium inter se stru, Etura & contextu
Chapter 5: Capitis structuraera, ratio, quotqeiusdemfigurae
Chapter 6: De octo capitis ossibus, & suturis haec committentibus
Chapter 7: De osse iugali, et ossibus quae rupi praeruptae aßimilantur
Chapter 8: De ossiculis auditis organi constructionem ingredientibus
Chapter 9: De duodecim superioris maxil læ oßibus, in quorum classem nasi ossaetiam referuntur
Chapter 10: De maxilla inferiori
Chapter 11: De dentibus, qui etiam oßium numero ascribuntur
Chapter 12: De ossium capitis et maxillæ superioris foraminibus
Chapter 13: De osse, græcorum literæ imagini comparato
Chapter 14: Dorso, et generatim de ipsis oßibus
Chapter 15: De colli cervicisue vertebris
Chapter 16: De thoracis vertebris
Chapter 17: De lumborum vertebris
Chapter 18: De osse sacro, et osse coccyge
Chapter 19: De thoracis ossibus
Chapter 20: De cartilaginea quæ cordis basiascribitur substantia, seu cordis osse
Chapter 21: De scapulis
Chapter 22: De claviculis
Chapter 23: De humero seu brachii oße
Chapter 24: De cubiti ossibus, ulna nimimirum, & radio
Chapter 25: De brachiali
Chapter 26: De postbrachiali
Chapter 27: De manus digitis
Chapter 28: De ossiculis, quæ sesami semini comparantur
Chapter 29: De ossibus, quæ ossis sacri lateribus committuntur
Chapter 30: De femore
Chapter 31: De tibiæ osse et fibula
Chapter 32: De patella
Chapter 33: De pedis ossibus
Chapter 34: De unguibus
Chapter 35: De palpebrarum cartilaginibus; Chapter 36: De auris cartilagine
Chapter 37: De nasi cartilaginibus
Chapter 38: De asperæ arteriæcartilaginibus, ac quid Græcis in bac
Chapther 39: Quo artificio humani corporis ossa & cartilagines inspectioni præparentur
Chapter 40: De ossium numero
Book 2
Primæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Secundæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Tertiæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Characterum quartæ musculorum tabulæ index
Characterum quintæ musculorum tabulæ index
Sextæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Septimæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Characterum octavæ musculorum tabulæ index
Nonæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Decimæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Undecimæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Duodecimæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Decimætertiæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Decimæquartæ musculorum tabulæ characterum index
Decimaquinta musculorum tabula
Decimasexta musculorum tabula
Chapter 1: Quid ligamentum, ac quis ligamentiusus & differentia
Chapter 2: Quid musculus
Chapter 3: De musculorum differentiis
Chapter 4: De musculorum numero
Chapter 5: De cute, cuticula, et membrana per universum corpus cuti subiecta, præterea & adipe inter cutem membranamq carnosam reposito
Chapter 6: Qui cuticulæ, cutis, adipis, et carnosæ membranæ natura per sectionem observari debeat
Chapter 7: De instrumentis, quæ sectionibus administrandis parari possunt
Chapter 8: De musculo frontis cutem movente; Chapter 9:Musculi frontis cutem moventis administratio
Chapter 10: De musculis palpebrarum
Chapter 11: De oculorum musculis
Chapter 12: Oculi musculorum administratio
Chapter 13: De buccarum, labrorum, et nasi alarum musculis
Chapter 14: Musculorum buccas, labra, & nasi alas moventium administratio
Chapter 15: De musculis inferiorem maxillam moventibus
Chapter 16:Musculorum inferiorem maxillam moventium administratio
Chapter 17:De musculis ossis imaginem referentis
Chapter 18:Propriorum hyoidis ossis musculorum administratio
Chapter 19:De linguæ musculis
Chapter 20:Linguæ musculorum administratio
Chapter 21:De laryngis musculis
Chapter 22:Laryngis musculorum administratio
Chapter 23:De musculis brachium moventibus
Chapter 24:Musculorum brachium moventium administratio
Chapter 25:De ligamentis humeri ad scapulam articuli
Chapter 26:De musculis scapulam moventibus
Chapter 27:Musculorum scapulam moventium administratio
Chapter 28:De musculis caput moventibus
Chapter 29:Caput moventium musculorum administratio
Chapter 30:De capitis et primæ secundæq ceruicis vertebrarum ligamentis
Chapter 31:De musculis abdominis
Chapter 32:Abdominis musculorum administratio
Chapter 33:De virilium testium et muliebris uteri musculis
Chapter 34:Musculorum testium administratio
Chapter 35:De musculis thoracem moventibus
Chapter 36:Musculorum thoracem moventium administratio
Chapter 37:De thoracis ligamentis
Chapter 38:De musculis dorsum moventibus
Chapter 39:Musculorum dorsum moventium administratio
Chapter 40:De vertebrarum ligamentis
Chapter 41:De musculo nervosa sua exilitate mediæ volæ , & internæ digitorum cuti subnato
Chapter 42:De carnea substantia, interiori digitorum regioni, ipsorumq radicibus, & mediæ volæ superstrata
Chapter 43:De musculis manus digitos moventibus
Chapter 44:De musculis motuum brachialis opificibus
Chapter 45:De musculis radium pronum et supinum constituentibus
Chapter 46:De musculis cubitum flecten tibus & extendentibus
Chapter 47:De manus ligamentis
Chapter 48:Administratio musculorum et ligamentorum manus, ac dein quot quaq sede reponantur musculi
Chapter 49:De musculis peni peculiatibus
Chapter 50:De cervicis vesicæ musculo, urinam, ne præter arbitrium ex vesica profluat, inhibente
Chapter 51:De recti intestini musculis
Chapter 52:Colli vesicæ et ani musculorum administratio
Chapter 53:De musculis tibiam moventibus
Chapter 54:Novem tibiam moventium musculorum administratio
Chapter 55:De musculo in poplite ocultato, quinonrecte Galeno præcipuustibiæ flexionis autor babetur
Chapter 56:De musculis femur moventibus
Chapter 57:Musculorum femur moventium administratio
Chapter 58:De latescente tendine, cutiplantæ subnato
Chapter 59:De musculis pedem moventibus
Chapter 60:De musculis pedis digitos moventibus
Chapter 61:De ligamentis ilium ossa sacro colligantibus, & coxendicis ac genu articuli, deq reilquis omnibus quæ in tibia & pede habentur ligamentis
Chapter 62:Musculorum in tibia et pede sedem obtinentium, & ligamentorum omnium quæ hactenus nonresectasunt, administrandiratio, musculorumq quitibiam & pedem occupant, numerus
Book 3
Chapter 1: Quid vena, et quæ ipsius substantia & ufus
Chapter 2:Quid sit arteria quæque ipsius substantia & usus
Chapter 3:Quis venarum et arteriarum numerus
Chapter 4:De glandulis, vasorum diductibus roboris gratia immißis adnexisq
Chapter 5:Venæ portæ ortus, ipsiusque propaginum series
Chapter 6:Quonam pacto venæ cavæ sobo les in iecoris substantia, portæ venæ propaginibus committantur, quaq rationevena cava a iecore prodeat, aut in ipsumramos diffundat
Chapter 7:Venæ cavæ, eius partis quæ supraiecur consistit, distributionis series
Chapter 8:Venæ axillaris et humerariæ per manum series
Chapter 9:Venæ cavæ prtionis ad partes infra septum transuer sum locatas distributæ series
Chapter 10:Venæ cavæ soboles in crus di gestæ
Chapter 11:De umbilici vena
Chapter 12:Unde arteria magna principium ducat, & in quos ramos ipsus ascendens pars digeratur
Chapter 13:Amplioris descendentisque magnæ arteriæ trunci in suos ramos series
Chapter 14:Venarum arteriarumque cerebri series
Chapter 15:De vena arteriali, et arteriavenali
Venarum et item arteriarum omnium integra absoluta...
Book 4
Chapter 1:Quibus corporis partibus nervinomen tribuatur, ac quis proprie nervus vocetur, & deumum quid is sit, una cum ipsus differentia & usu
Chapter 2:Quot nervorum paria a cerebro & dorsalis medullæ parte adhuc in caluaria consistente, originem sumant
Chapter 3:De olfactus organo nonnulla
Chapter 4:De primo nervorum a cerebro originem ducentium pari
Chapter 5:De secundo pari nervorum cerebri; Chapter 6:De tertio pari nervorum cerebri
Chapter 7:De quarto pari nervorum cerebri; Chapter 8: Quinti nervorum cerebri paris series
Chapter 9:De sexto pari nervorum cerebri
Chapter 10:De septimo pari nervorum cerebri
Chapter 11:De dorsali medulla, et nervorum ab ispa prodeuntium numero
Chapter 12:Septem nervorum parium e cervicis vertebris prosilientium series
Chapter 13:Series duodecim parium nervorum dorsalis medullæ, thoracis complexæ vertebris
Chapter 14:Nervorum in universam manum series
Chapter 15:Quinque parium nervorum e lumborum vetebris prodeuntium series; Chapter 16: Nervorum e sacro osse prosilientium series
Chapter 17:Nervorum femur, tibiam et pedem adeuntium distributionis ratio
Nervorum delineatio, que septum parium nervuorum...
Book 5
2 Figura
3 Figura
4 Figura
6 Figura
7, 8 Figuras
9 Figura
10 Figura
11 Figura
12, 13 Figuras
14, 15 Figuras
16, 17 Figuras
18, 19 Figuras
20 Figura
21 Figura
22 Figura
23 Figura
24 Figura
25 Figura
26 Figura
27 Figura
28, 29, 30 Figuras
Chapter 1:Hominem necessario corruptioni...
Chapter 2:De peritonæo
Chapter 3:De stomacho et ventriculo
Chapter 4:De omento
Chapter 5:De intestinis
Chapter 6:De mesenterio
Chapter 7:De iecore
Chapter 8:De bilis flavæ vesicula
Chapter 9:De liene
Chapter 10:De renibus
Chapter 11:De vesica urinæ receptaculo, & meatibus urinam erenibus in uesicam deducentibus
Chapter 12:Naturam propagandæ speciei prouidisse
Chapter 13:De virorum organis generationi subseruientibus
Chapter 14:De virilis membri penisue structura
Chapter 15:De utero reliquisque muliebribus generationi famulantibus organis
Chapter 16:De uteri acetabulis
Chapter 17:De involucris foetum in utero tegentibus
Chapter 18:De mamillis
Chapter 19:Quonam pacto anatomen aggredi conueniat, & privatim omnium quæ hoc libro commemorantur partium administrandiratio
Book 6
2 Figura
3 Figura
4 Figura
5 Figura
6 Figura
7, 8 Figuras
9 Figura
10, 11 Figuras
12, 13 Figuras
Chapter 1:Quas partes natura aereæ substantiæ reficiendæ fabrefecerit, ac quæ privatim vitali spiritui subministret
Chapter 2:De tunica costas succingente
Chapter 3:De membranis cavitatem thoracis intersepientibus
Chapter 4:De aspera arteria
Chapter 5:De faucium glandulis
Chapter 6:De gargareone
Chapter 7:De pulmone
Chapter 8:De cordis involvucro
Chapter 9:De cordis situ et forma
Chapter 10:De cordis substantia
Chapter 11:De cordis sinibus, seu ventriculis
Chapter 12:De cordis vasis, et eorundem orificiis
Chapter 13:De undecim membranulis quatuor orificiorum cordis
Chapter 14:De cordis auriculis
Chapter 15:Cordis, ispiusque hactenus commemoratarum partium functio & usus, iplarumq constructionis ratio
Chapter 16:Cordis, pulmonum, reliquorum que respirationi seruientium organorum administrandiratio
Book 7
2 Figura
3 Figura
4 Figura
5 Figura
6 Figura
7 Figura
8 Figura
9 Figura
10 Figura
11 Figura
12 Figura
13 Figura
14 Figura
15 Figura
16, 17, 18 Figuras
Chapter 1:Cerebrum gratia principis animæ, quemadmodum sensus quoque ac motus ex nostro arbitratu pendentis, extructum esse
Chapter 2:De dura cerebrum, ambiente membrana, & sub cute caluaria succingente membranula
Chapter 3:De tenui cerebrum involvente membrana
Chapter 4:De cerebri ac cerebelli numero, situ, forma, reulotionibius & substantia
Chapter 5:De calloso cerebri corpore, et dextri sinistriq cerebriuentriculorum septo
Chapter 6:De cerebri ventriculis
Chapter 7:De cerebri corpore, testudinis cameræue imagini a dissectionum peritis comparato
Chapter 8:De cerebri glande nucis pineæ imaginem exprimente
Chapter 9:De testibus et natibus cerebri
Chapter 10:De cerebelli processibus ver mis imaginem exprimentibus, ac demum tendinibus illos continentibus
Chapter 11:De infundibulo, et glandula pituitam cerebri excipiente, reliquiss ductibus eandem expurgantibus
Chapter 12:De cerebri plexibus, quorum alter reticulari, alter secundarum efformato plexui similis essecreditur
Chapter 13:De olfactus organo
Chapter 14:De oculo visus instrumento
Chapter 15:De auditus instrumento; Chapter 16:De gustus instrumento; Chapter 17:De tactus instrumento
Chapter 18:Cerebri, omniumque quæ præfenti libro traduntur organorum administrandi ratio
Chapter 19: De vivorum sectione nonnul
Index
Back Matter

References:

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 375
Cushing, H. Bio-bib. of Andreas Vesalius, VI.A.-1
Adams, V603
Heirs of Hippocrates, 281

Uniform title:

De humani corporis fabrica

Text language:

In Latin with Greek and Hebrew references.

Binding note:

Ex copy: In contemporary German calf over wooden boards; spine in 6 compartments; covers show 7 vertical rows with alternating motifs of married couple and of lamp flanked by chalices; outer border shows rosettes and floral motifs; vestiges of catches and clasps at fore-edge; volume is housed in plain blue cloth clamshell box.

Printer:

Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568

Illustrator:

Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?