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BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (c.1460-1530). Carpi Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia Mundini una cum textu eiusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictis, 1521.
4° (210 x 146mm). Title printed in red and black within architectural and historiated woodcut border, 21 large anatomical woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. (Title extensively repaired and conjoined with 2A4 at gutter, marginal repairs to leaves 2A2-3, tiny wormhole from 2A3-2D4 with a few letters affected, 2Y4 with corner repaired affecting a few letters, 6G4 re-margined, light marginal staining and spotting, heavier and into text in gatherings 7O, 10I, 10O-10Y, very small marginal burn holes in gatherings 10M-10N, stamps erased from margin of 10O3 and final leaf, marginal paper flaw in 12E4.) Modern reversed calf, antique style (lacking ties, rubbed). Provenance: Albert (ink ownership inscription on title).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN BOOK ON ANATOMY. Berengario's Commentaria on Mondino's fourteenth-century Anatomia was the first published work to contain anatomical illustrations based on the anatomist's own dissections. In addition, the Commentaria 'contains the first mention of the vermiform appendix, as well as the first good account of the thymus. The description of the male and female reproductive organs, or reproduction itself, and of the foetus, is more extensive than any earlier account' (Garrison and Morton). It is the most important predecessor to Vesalius's Fabrica. Numerous innovations in anatomical iconography introduced in the Commentaria were later adopted by Vesalius, including the dissection vignette on the title border in which Berengario is shown dissecting a cadaver. Most importantly Berengario was the first to begin the long tradition of illustrating standing dissected figures in a naturalistic setting. Choulant-Frank pp. 137-39; Garrison and Morton 367; Grolier Medicine 15; Herrlinger pp. 80-82; Lind pp. 159-65; NLM/Durling 530; Putti pp. 143-46; Wellcome 1, 781; Norman 187.
4° (210 x 146mm). Title printed in red and black within architectural and historiated woodcut border, 21 large anatomical woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. (Title extensively repaired and conjoined with 2A4 at gutter, marginal repairs to leaves 2A2-3, tiny wormhole from 2A3-2D4 with a few letters affected, 2Y4 with corner repaired affecting a few letters, 6G4 re-margined, light marginal staining and spotting, heavier and into text in gatherings 7O, 10I, 10O-10Y, very small marginal burn holes in gatherings 10M-10N, stamps erased from margin of 10O3 and final leaf, marginal paper flaw in 12E4.) Modern reversed calf, antique style (lacking ties, rubbed). Provenance: Albert (ink ownership inscription on title).
THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN BOOK ON ANATOMY. Berengario's Commentaria on Mondino's fourteenth-century Anatomia was the first published work to contain anatomical illustrations based on the anatomist's own dissections. In addition, the Commentaria 'contains the first mention of the vermiform appendix, as well as the first good account of the thymus. The description of the male and female reproductive organs, or reproduction itself, and of the foetus, is more extensive than any earlier account' (Garrison and Morton). It is the most important predecessor to Vesalius's Fabrica. Numerous innovations in anatomical iconography introduced in the Commentaria were later adopted by Vesalius, including the dissection vignette on the title border in which Berengario is shown dissecting a cadaver. Most importantly Berengario was the first to begin the long tradition of illustrating standing dissected figures in a naturalistic setting. Choulant-Frank pp. 137-39; Garrison and Morton 367; Grolier Medicine 15; Herrlinger pp. 80-82; Lind pp. 159-65; NLM/Durling 530; Putti pp. 143-46; Wellcome 1, 781; Norman 187.
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