World map from Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia (Ulm, 1482): the first edition of Ptolemy printed in Germany, and the first edition in which woodcut maps appear.
Creator:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Contributor:
D'Angelo, Jacopo. tr.; Nicolaus Germanus, 15th cent. ed.
Created:
1482
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This inhabited (seated man wearing epaulet) wood-type initial W, overlapping-Vs form, is incised and enhanced with pointed vertexes, and hatched shading, It is enclosed in a mitered frame.
Contributor:
Froben, Io [Johann]; Holbein, Hans d.J. (the Younger)
Created:
1518
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This floriated Romanesque wood-type initial W (double-V form) is adorned with line shade, bifurcated serifs, and hatched shading. It is enclosed in a frame.
Contributor:
Petri de Langendorf, Adam
Created:
1520
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This floriated Romanesque wood-type initial D is uncial style adorned with line shade, a bifurcated terminal, a notched bowl, and hatched shading. It is enclosed in a frame.
Contributor:
Petri de Langendorf, Adam
Created:
1520
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This zoomorphic (two creatures) Romanesque wood-type initial I is adorned with line shade, bifurcated serifs with extended curls, medial rounded bump-outs, and hatched shading. It is enclosed in a frame.
Contributor:
Petri de Langendorf, Adam
Created:
1520
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This floriated Romanesque wood-type initial W (double-V form) is outlined and adorned with bifurcated serifs, pointed vertexes, and hatched shading. It is enclosed in a frame.
Contributor:
Petri de Langendorf, Adam
Created:
1520
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This floriated Romanesque wood-type initial N is adorned with line shade, bifurcated serifs with curls, and a thin diagonal. It is enclosed in a frame.
Contributor:
Petri de Langendorf, Adam
Created:
1520
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Book 1 and 2 treat proportions of fat, medicine, and thin adults and infants. Book 3 covers the mathematical basis for changing proportions of the human figure and face, while Book 4 treats the stereometry of the body as it moves in space.
Creator:
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Created:
1528
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
This is a rare first vernacular edition of a seminal work in the history of anatomical illustration and the dissemination of practical medical knowledge and was used in the day to day instruction to provide interactive models of the human body to medical students and barber-surgeons. With: Tabula exhibens insigiora maris viscera ... / Bartholoma...
Creator:
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564 (author); Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568 (bookseller); Thorer, Alban 1489-1550 (translator); van Calcar, Jan Stephan, 1499-1546? (illustrator); Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632 (former owner)
Created:
1543
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
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