A dissection, with five attending figures. Line block after a woodcut, 1482.

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24210i
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Unusual in that there are no surgical instruments present

Physical description

1 process print : line block ; image 9 x 11.8 cm

Lettering

Icy com<m>ence le .v. livre du proprietaire auq<ue>l estraicte du corps de lomme et de ses parties.

References note

G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, pp. 154-155, no. 49

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24210i

Reproduction note

The original is: a woodcut illustration to the fifth book of Le propriétaire des choses, by Bartholomaeus Anglicus published by Mathias Husz in Lyons in 1482

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