The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Date:: [1926]

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The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour 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-size 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. The position of the cadaver in this illustration has been variously interpreted as either laid out on a table, so that the corpse and the standing anatomist occupy two planes, or suspended next to him. For other illustrations from the same manuscript, see catalogues nos 26656, 26662, 26665, 26682 and 26684

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

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1 print : collotype, printed in colour ; image 29.2 x 21.4 cm

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Hec est secunda fig<ur>a anothomie sicut scinditur venter c<aus>a vive<n>di omnia memb<ra> que sunt in ventre ut s<un>t p<ri>mo tres paniculi s<cilicet> mirac sifac et zirb<u>s et post hec su<n>t i<n>testi<n>a sple<n> epar et renes et vie uri<n>ales et vie portantes sparma 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 26646i

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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