Twee anatomische planodrukken met beweegbare onderdelen. Uitgegeven bij Silvester van Parijs te Antwerpen ca. 1540-1550

Abstract

SUMMARY: In the University Library at Mons, Belgium is kept a unique copy of a pair of anatomical broadsides, entitled Anatomical, ou particion du corps viril... and... Anathomia du corps feminin, printed in Antwerp by Silvester van Parijs, probably between 1540 and 1550. The male figure has six, the female seven superimposed flaps. A Latin edition of the Silvester-van-Parijs type is described by Choulant but no copy is recorded. The Medical Center Library of the University of Michigan has a Latin-German edition and in the National Library of Medicine at Bethesda, Md., a Flemish edition has come to light. The latter seems to be very close to our French version; both were most probably published at the same time. Prof. L.H. Wells, a specialist in the field of anatomical fugitive sheets, will pick up again the study of them in the light of this recently discovered document in Mons.