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Author: Berengario da Carpi, Jacopo, ca. 1460–ca. 1530.
Artist: Hugo da Carpi, 1455–1523.

Title: Isagogae breues, perlucid[a]e ac uberrim[a]e, in anatomia[m] humani corporis a co[m]muni medicoru[m] academia usitata[m].

Publication: Impressum & nouiter reuissum Bononi[a]e: Per Benedictum Hectoris bibliopolam Bononiensem, anno uirginei partus 1523 sub die xv. Iulii.

Collation: 80 leaves ; 21 cm. (8 vo).

General notes:

Imprint from colophon.
Title within woodcut border.
Woodcut printer's device and register in colophon.
Signatures: A-K8.
"Plutonis & Harpagi dissecti dialogus" (poem by Bernardino Partenio): leaves 73-74.
Includes index.

References:

BM Italian, 1465–1600, p. 86.
NLM 16th cent., no. 534.
Sander, M. Le livre á figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'á 1530, no. 906.
Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 783.

Notes about NLM's copy:

With this are bound: HIS De calvaria. [Bononiae, 152-]; and, Bolognini, Angelo. Libellus de cura ulcerum exteriorum, et De unguentis. [Bononiae, 1525].
[4] p. of ms. notes before textblock and [27] p. at end in a contemporary hand, matching ms. marginalia in textblock.
Ownership signature of Dr. Perret, 1863, on front flyleaf.

Call number: WZ 240 B488i 1523