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

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Language:
  • Latin
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
  • Hebrew
Creator:
  • Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
Call number:
  • EX Oversize QM21 .V418 1543f
Extent:
  • [12], 659 [i. e. 663], [37] p. : ill., port. (woodcuts) ; 44 cm. (fol.)
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • 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
Title sort:
  • Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
Author:
  • Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
Created:
  • 1543-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1543
Type:
  • Atlases
  • Early works to 1800
Location:
  • HSVR EX Oversize QM21 .V418 1543f
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/vt150t68p
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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?