Canano, Giovanni Battista (1515-1579)

Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio ... nunc primum in lucem edita. The drawings were by Girolamo da Carpi, and were said to have been engraved on copper by Augustino de' Musi. Only the first book containing the muscles was published. The end-papers are water-marked with a reproduction of a medallion of Pope Pius VII, 1800-1823 [1742-1823].

Early 19th century

1 volume 20 ff. 4to. 191/2 x 14 cm. Contemporary stamped morocco gilt binding.

Purchased 1922.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

A carefully executed copy of the famous pre-Vesalian work, of which only three copies are known, and which was published probably shortly before 1543.