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Title

Yiddish translation of De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Authors

• Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564

Call number

LJS 485
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5809102
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5809102

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Yiddish, in Ashkenazi Hebrew characters, with a few words in Latin (f. 2r)

Origin

Date

between 1590 and 1595?

Place

Germany

Summary

Treatise on anatomy intended for medical students, abridged by Vesalius from his own larger work. This Yiddish translation is probably based on a pirated German translation published in Nuremberg in 1551 under the title Anatomia deudsch. Organized in the same 6 chapters as the original Latin epitome of Vesalius and the Anatomia deudsch, concerning bones and cartilage, ligaments and muscles, the digestive system, the heart, the brain, and the reproductive system.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Aigle 154-155 (Babenhausen, 1593; Eltsville, near Mainz, 1593-1597).

Extent

62 leaves : 202 x 155 (145 x 105) mm. bound to 209 x 165 mm

Collation

Paper, i (modern) + 62 + i (modern); 1¹⁴ 2¹⁸ 3²⁴ 4⁶(-1); [1-59, i (stub), 60-61], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern leather, blind-stamped (Les Enluminures).

Layout

Written in 19-26 long lines.

Script

Written in Ashkenazi script, with a few words in Latin in humanistic cursive script (f. 2r).

Provenance

• Formerly in a private collection in Israel.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jan. 2007.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Human anatomy--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Abridgements
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Yiddish--16th century
• Manuscripts, European

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