A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Date:: [1926]

Reference:: 26688i

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A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Guido de Vigevano was a fourteenth-century Lombard who served as physician to the Queen of France, Jeanne de Bourgogne. Full-scale facsimiles of the eighteen illustrations to his manuscript of Galenic medicine in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, no. 334 (ex 569), dedicated to King Philip VI of Valois, were published in 1926 by Wickersheimer, together with facsimiles of early editions of the Anatomy of Mundinus. The Vigevano illustrations depict the anatomy of the abdomen, thorax, and head, demonstrated on a skeletal cadaver, as well as examples of the medical treatment of living patients. This plate is of a living nude male labelled to show the sites of the interior anatomy of the figure. The left side of the chest is accordingly labelled "cor" and, on either side of the abdomen, the word "ren" designates the position of each kidney, and so on. This was to aid in diagnosing which part of the body was affected in illness. Another example of this illustration is catalogue no. 26656. For other illustrations from the same manuscript, see catalogue nos 26646, 26662, 26665, 26682 and 26684

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [E. Droz], [1926]

Physical description

1 print : collotype ; image 29.5 x 21.5 cm

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Lettering

Hec est prima figura anothomie hominis f<a>c<t>a in homine vivo in hunc mu<n>dum videlic<et> sicut scriptum est ex<ter>ius sup<ra> corpus sic iacent memb<ra> i<n> corpus hominis p<ro>pter q<uo>d pote<r>it cognosci infirmitas c<ujus> libet membri in quo me<m>bro er<i>t; cana p<u>lm<onis> ; pulmo ; cor ; dyafragma ; sto<ma>cus ; os st<omac>i ; epar ; splen ; intestina ; ren ; ren ; via urine ; via urine ; sia ; sia Lettering continues below image: Ernest Wickersheimer, Anatomies de Mundino de Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. In-4 ̊raisin, 92 plates, 16 phototypies dont 5 en couleurs, 50 fac-similes

References note

R. Herrlinger, History of medical illustration from antiquity to A.D. 1600, tr. G. Fulton-Smith, Nijkerk 1970, pp. 40-41

L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, pp. 60-61

G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die Anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, nos 4-6, pp. 128-130

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26688i

Reproduction note

This is a facsimile from Guido de Vigevano's manuscript, the "Liber notabilium", of 1345 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, no. 334 (ex. 569). The figures are described in fols 257-273v in a section entitled: "Hec est anothomia Philipi septimi [sic], Francorum regis, designata per figuras per Guidonem, medicum suprascripti regis"

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