Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564)

Copies, with descriptive text, of the three plates of the skeleton, and of the fourteen plates of the muscles from the 'De humani corporis fabrica'. The drawings are pen and ink, and of poor execution. Inserted are three duplicates by the same copyist.

Early 17th century

1 volume 22 ll. (first & last bl.). atlas folio. 45 x 291/2 cm. 19th cent. boards.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1910.

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).