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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Valverde de Hamusco, Juan de |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | $a Historia De la composicion del cuerpo humano, escrita por Ioan de Valverde de Hamusco. |
| 260 | # | # | $b Impressa por Antonio Salamanca, y Antonio Lafrerii, $a En Roma. $c Año de M. D. LVI. $c [1556] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [12], 106, [59] f.: $b [42] illus.; $c 292 mm. (In sixes.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a Among the fifty-nine unnumbered leaves of text there are forty-two full-page illustrations, numbered 'Tab. Primera (-Setima) Del Lib. Primero; Tab. Primera (-Deziseysena) Del Lib. Degundo; Tab. Primera (-Sesta) Del Lib. Terzero; Tabla De Las Fig. Del IIII. Lib.; Tab. Primera (-Tercera) Del V. Libro; Tab. Primera (-Quinta) Del Lib. Sesto; Tab. Primera (-Quarta) Del Lib. VII'. The first, unnumbered leaf carries the engraved title-plate on its recto and the printed privilege on its verso. The 'Registro delos quadernos' lists the variations in the gatherings. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [T.-pl.; privilege, dedic.] - Al Letor - Tabla De Los Capitulos - Tabla De Todas Las Cosas Notables ... - Prologo; [Text, with illus.] - Registro delos quadernos - Los herrores cometídos en el estampar ... . |
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$a There are no signatures of draughtsman or engraver on the engraved title-plate, the full-page illustrations, or the decorative initials. But the artist was possibly Gaspar Becerra; the engraver was Nicolas Beatrizet. The work is dedicated by the author to Ioan De Toledo Cardenal. |
| 510 | 0 | # | $a M. Cazort et al., The Ingenious Machine of Nature [exhibition catalogue] (1996); K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration (1992), p. 210-220; F. Guerra, 'Juan de Valverde de Amusco', in Clio Med., 2 (1967), p. 339-62; L.L. Szladits, 'The influence of Michelangelo on some anatomical illustration', in Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences, 9 (1954), p.420-7; A.W. Meyer and S.K. Wirt, 'The Amuscan illustration', in Bulletin of the history of medicine, 14 (1943), p. 667-87. |
| 520 | 2 | # | $a The illustrations of Valverde's book are redrawn and engraved copies of about two thirds of Vesalius's woodcuts. One print shows a flayed man holding a human skin, an image perhaps derived from Michelangelo's depiction of St Bartholomew in the Sistine Chapel. |
| 561 | # | # | $a Purchased for RA Library in 1880 (see RA Annual Report for 1880, p. 41). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century calf; spine lettered 'Anat Valverd' and 'R.A.' |
| 653 | # | # | $a Anatomy |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Manuals, Spanish - Italy - 16th century |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Pictorial works - Italy - 16th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Salamanca, Antonio $e printer |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Lafréry, Antoine $e printer |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Becerra, Gaspar $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Beatrizet, Nicolaus $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Alvarez de Toledo, Juan $e dedicatee |