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Historical Bibliography Updated: December 1, 2019

Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio.

Publication Details

Ferrara: [Printer not identified], 1541 CE.

The first book in which each muscle was illustrated separately, with copper-plates of the bones and muscles of the upper limb from drawings by Girolamo da Carpi, which in realism and exactitude surpassed anything between Leonardo and Vesalius. But having seen the woodcuts in Vesalius's Fabrica, the high-minded Ferrarese is said to have deliberately "suppressed his own book, and only 11 copies are now extant” (A. C. Klebs).

This work was reprinted in facsimile in Florence, 1925, edited by Harvey Cushing and Edward Clark Streeter. Digital facsimile of the facsimile edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link. English translation in No. 461.3.

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Entry Number#373
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External URLmusculorum-humani-corporis-picturata-dissectio

Geographic Context

Publication place: Ferrara

Mentioned in annotation: Florence