Mundinus: Anatomia.
Edited by Vincentius Georgius.
Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, for Hieronymus de Durantibus, 20 Feb. 1494/95.
4to. aa-ff4. [24] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC im00875000; GW M25677; Goff M875; CIBN M-554; Polain(B) 2794 (omitting “ſuſcipere” in line 14 on aa1v); Walsh 2607.
The author is Mondino de' Liuzzi, commonly known as Mundinus.
| GIP number: | M58 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Hieronymus de Righi(?) (16th century): inscription on aa1r “Hieronymi de Righj(?)”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ax.7.13”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border, a small gold flower at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 210 x 158 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 206 x 151 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious 16th-century marginal annotations (some cropped); anatomical diagrams in lower margins of cc1v and dd4v illustrating respectively the chapters “De anothomia chistis sellis” and “De anothomia pulmonis”; frequent underlining; several nota marks and manicules; dates “1482”, “1494” and “1514” written in outer margin next to colophon on ff4v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
