A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

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[1926]
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A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. 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 illustration displays the spinal column of a nude figure seen from the back and the nerves which radiate from it. For other illustrations from the same manuscript, see catalogue nos 26646, 26656, 26662, 26665 and 26682

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

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1 print : collotype ; image 29.5 x 21.5 cm

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Hec est sextadecima figura anothomie hominis scissi de retro in qua nobis o<ste>ndit nuca<m> desce<n>dente<m> a s<u>b<st>ancia ce<re>bri p<er> spondilia ... colli et spatularu<m> et tocius dorsi p<er> lo<n>gum usq<ue> ad ami.. et nob<is> o<ste>ndit n<er>vos descendentes ab ip<s>a nuca portantes se<n>sum et motum toti corpori. 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 26684i

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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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