A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493.

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A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 process print : line block ; image 14.4 x 8.9 cm

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Anathomia Mu<n>dini Eme<n>data p<er> doctore<m> Melerstat.

References note

G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, pp. 102-103, no. 116
L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. M. Frank, New York, p. 93

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Wellcome Collection 24132i

Reproduction note

The original appeared as a title-page to: M. Pollich von Mellerstadt's edition of Mondino dei Luzzi's Anatomy, published in Leipzig by Martin Landsberg (?) c. 1493

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