A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Date:: [1926]

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A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". 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 medical treatment of living patients. In this plate, the dissection of a skeletal cadaver has been initiated with the removal of the skin of the abdomen to reveal the subcutaneous layer of fat and muscle known as "mirac". The skin has been cut in hinged flaps and the outline of these follow the curve of the lower ribs and the shape of the head of the femur which inserts into the pelvis. For other illustrations from the same manuscript, see catalogue numbers 26646, 26656, 26665, 26682 and 26684

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : collotype ; image 29.5 x 21.4 cm

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Lettering

Hec est tercia figura anothomie sicut scisso ventre aparet primus pa<n>iculus ventris qui vocatur mirac ; mirac 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

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Wellcome Collection 26662i

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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