Facets

First dated printed edition of the first medieval book devoted solely to anatomy, written by Mondino for his students in 1316. An earlier, but undated edition, of which only 3 copies are recorded, appeared in Padua ab…

MONDINO DE LUZZI, [MUNDINUS] (1270 – 1326) WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965)

GUIDO DA VIGEVANO, (Guido da Pavia) (1280 – 1349)

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Co…

MONDEVILLE, Henri de (1260 – 1316)

PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)

Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…

SALICETO, Guglielmo da [WILLIAM OF SALICETO] (1210 – 1277)

Saliceto was Professor of Surgery at Bologna about 1268; his treatise on surgery, written about 1275, was the leading work on the subject in the 13th century. William broke with tradition by claiming that pus formatio…

One of the most important of the early works on comparative anatomy. It includes the Anatomia porci, attributed to Copho of Salerno. Severinus dissected many animals and was convinced that the microscope would throw l…