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Vivae imagines partium corporis humani, 1579

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Record ID cp010247
Voet reference number 2415
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:3219292
Author Joannes (Juan) VALVERDA (VALVERDE) DE HAMUSCO
Title page transcription [Engraved title-page; printed typographically within cut-out parts:] □ VIVÆ ‖ IMAGINES ‖ PARTIVM ‖ CORPORIS ‖ HVMANI ‖ ÆREIS FORMIS ‖ EXPRESSÆ. ‖ [Fleuron] ‖ ANTVERPIÆ. ‡ EX OFFICINA CHRISTO- ‖ PHORI PLANTINI. ‖ M.D.LXXIX.
Collation Folio (275 × 215): A⁴, B⁶, C-V⁴; pages 1-172 (= for 171), [172-176], [1-84] (Errors: 172 for 171)
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Number of sheets
Pages [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-6]: Clarissimo…senatui Antverpiano S.P. (Antwerp, 1 March 1566, signed by Christophorus Plantinus) [7]: Christophor. Plantinus artis medicæ studiosis S. (italic type) [7]: Table [8]-128: Explicatio figurarum (on two columns; parts in italic type, words in greek type) [76]: Blank) 129-172 (= for 171): Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome (italic type, parts in roman type and greek type, marginals in roman type) [172]: Partium omnium corporis differentiae, per Iacobum Grevinum (= in form of a table) [173-174]: Privilege (Vienna, 21 February 1565, s. Haller; Brussels, s. De Langhe) [175]: ANTVERIÆ (= sic) EXCVDEBAT ‖ CHRISTOPHORVS PLANTINVS, ‖ ARCHITYPOGRAPHVS REGIVS, ‖ XVI. KAL. MAII ANNO DOMINI ‖ CIƆ.IƆ. LXXIX [176]: Blank [1-84]: 42 anatomical illustrations (printed on ro-side; vo-side blank)
Edition information
Illustrations Same as in the 1568 and 1572 editions
Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 2003: 1572 title-pageKBR Royal Library of Belgium- = 1579 title-pageCambridge- = two copies with 1572 title-page- British Library London (= 1579 title-page). Other copies, but not checked the date of the title-page: University of Michigan, Ann HarborBoston Medical Library, BostonUniversity of Chicago Library - Chicago (USA, Illinois)Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Chicago (USA, Illinois)Howard-Tilton Memorial Library - New Orleans (USA, Louisiana)Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library - Columbia University - New York (USA, N.Y.)New York Academy of Medicine Library - New York (USA, N.Y.)Medical Society County of Kings - Brooklyn (USA, New York)Army Medical Library, Surgeon General's Office, Washington D.C.Historical Library, School of Medicine, Yale University.
Bibliographical references Ruelens-de Backer, pages 126 (1572, no. 24) and 203 (1579, no. 21) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), V, pages 702-703 (= 1572 title-page; described after Museum Plantin-Moretus-copy) Cushing, page 152 (= 1572 title-page)
Online bibliographical references
Note 1 Reprint of the 1566 Latin edition, but the anatomical illustrations brought together into one part and the letterpress text into another part as in the 1568 Dutch edition.
Note 2 On the confusing problem of this edition: cf. preceding no.
Note 3 According to the colophon the printing was finished on 16 April 1579.
Note 4 Not listed in M 296 or M 164.
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