Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam.
Publication Details
Bologna: B. Hectoris, 1522 CE.
One year after publishing his Commentary on Mondino, Giacomo Berengario da Carpi issued an abbreviated version or Isagoge, with most of the same woodcuts. This was the book by which Berengario's contributions to anatomy and to the teaching of anatomy chiefly becamely known. Berengario intended the Isagoge to be a manual for his students, and as a replacement for his obsolete 1514 edition of Mondino's Anathomia. It has the same arrangement of contents as the Commentaria, and includes some additional anatomical observations, such as the report of a fused kidney with horseshoe configuration seen at a public dissection in 1521, and a description of the valves of the heart.
In 1523 Berengario issued a revised and expanded second edition of his Isagoge, containing three more anatomical woodcuts, as well as some revisions to the illustrations that had appeared in the first edition; these alterations and additions emphasized the anatomy of the heart and brain, and included the first published view of the cerebral ventricles from an actual dissection. The architectural title-border was first used in Berengario's Commentaria (1521); here, it has been altered to read "Maria" instead of "Leo P.X.," and Berengario's surname "Carpus" appears both in the architrave and the vignette. The shield has also been altered to read "YHS." English translation by L. R. Lind, Chicago, 1959. The second edition (1523) contains 3 more anatomical woodcuts depicting the heart and brain.
Thematic Classifications
| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #368 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/445 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | isagogae-breves-perlucide-ac-uberime-in-anatomiam-humani-corporis-a-communi-medicorum-academia-usitatam |
Geographic Context
Publication place: Bologna
Mentioned in annotation: Chicago