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Posted 8 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I'm not exactly sure, but i think that this is an anatomical drawing of some kind - showing some muscles and their names. i found this at my favorite junk shop. in the second photo, you can see the watermark. i wonder if this is really old or a repro or what?
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That numeration of XIIII is in ink and has been changed from the original : XV.
It comes from:
Browne, J. (1642-ca. 1700)
Myographia nova sive musculorum omnium (in corpore humano hactenus repertorum) accuratissima descriptio, in sex praælectiones distributa Nomina singulorum in suo quæque loco, situque naturali, in æneis musculorum iconibus exarantur: eorum item origines, insertiones, & usus, graphice describuntur, additis insuper ipsius authoris, & aliorum nuperrimis observationibus & inventis. Opera & studio Joannis Browne, serenissimi caroli secundi, britanniarum regis, nec-non nosocomii regalis, quod est ad D. Thomæ, chirurgi ordinarii.
Browne, John, 1642-ca. 1700., Casseri, Giulio Cesare, ca. 1552-1616., Molins, William.
Londini: excudebat Joannes Redmayne, celsissimi principis jacobi ducis eboracensis typographus, 1684.
http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/medica/resultats/?cote=00273&p=59&do=page
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/browne-john-1642-1700-a-compleat-treatise-of-4959906-details.aspx
A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, As they appear in Humane Body, And arise in Dissection; With Diverse Anatomical Observations Not yet Discovered. [London:] In the Savoy, Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1681.
"BROWNE, John (1642-1700). A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, As they appear in Humane Body, And arise in Dissection; With Diverse Anatomical Observations Not yet Discovered. [London:] In the Savoy, Printed by Thomas Newcombe, 1681.
2o (318 x 292 mm.). Engraved portrait of Browne (repaired at corners) after R. White and 37 engraved plates. 13 explanation leaves at pages 56, 66, 70, 76, 80, 86, 90, 96, 98, 102, 108, 114 and 204. (Lacks text leaf Q1 [pp.61-62] as often, some occasional pale spotting, last leaf chipped along lower edge.) Modern morocco gilt in period style. Provenance: Thomas Outhwaite (18th-century signature on front flyleaf); John Outhwaite (signature dated 1819 on front flyleaf); Ira M. Rutkow (pencil signature on rear flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION, though leaf Q1 is lacking, the catchword on p.60 matches the first word on p.63 which follows. Browne's anatomy of the muscles, his most popular work, which went through more than ten English and Continental editions, and was translated into Latin and German. It is more widely known as Myographia nova, the title given to the Latin edition of 1684 and to all subsequent Latin and English editions. The manuscript of the Compleat Treatise (now at the Royal College of Surgeons) was completed in 1675, around the time that Browne was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Charles II (a post he would continue to hold under two successive kings). It was at this time, as Russell states, that the ambitious Browne began to publish medical works "as the best and quickest way of bringing his name before the public as a surgeon" (Russell [1959], p. 397). Two early compilations from other authors, published in 1678, were followed by the Compleat Treatise, dedicated to Charles II; this may have been a contributing factor in the King's recommendation of Browne to a surgical post at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1683. Further publications of note from Browne included a treatise on the King's Evil (Adenochoiradelogia [1684]), containing an excellent firsthand account of the ceremony of touching royalty as a cure for scrofula, and an article in the Phil. Trans. vol. 15 (1685) containing the first description of cirrhosis of the liver (G-M 3613).
Browne's Compleat Treatise is chiefly known today as a famous example of medical plagiarism, and with good reason: the text is a nearly a word-for-word transcription of William Molins's lesser-known \KMyskotomiai\k or the Anatomical Administration of all the Muscles of an Humane Body (1648 and later), with plates copied, with some alterations, from the reduced versions of the Fialetti engravings in the 1632 Frankfurt edition of Casserio's Tabulae Anatomicae. Browne's heavy reliance on Molins and Casserio, unacknowledged in either the Compleat Treatise or any of its later editions, was mercilessly exposed by James Young in his Medicaster Medicatus, or a Remedy for the Itch of Scribling (1685), in which Young, following the tradition established by so many English polemicists of his century, blasted Browne's pretensions to authorship while thoroughly assassinating his character. It is Young's detailed and trenchant criticism that has branded Browne so permanently with the unsavory title of plagiarist, but it must be remembered that plagiarism, although condemned by many authors of the time, was still widely practiced in the 17th and 18th centuries (a telling example of this two-faced behavior is William Cowper, who attacked Browne as a plagiarist in his Myotomia Reformata [1694] at the same time he was completing his Anatomy of Humane Bodies [1698], the illustrations of which he took without permission from Bidloo's Anatomia Humani Corporis [1685]). Furthermore, Browne's work continued to enjoy popularity and influence into the 18th century, as can be seen by the reproduction of the Browne/Casserio plates in such works as Manget's Theatrum Anatomicum (1716, 1717). Heirs of Hippocrates 642; NLM/Krivatsy 1820; Roberts & Tomlinson, pp.404-11. Russell, British Anatomy 101; Sappol, Dream Anatomy, pp.10 and 113; "John Browne, 1642-1702," Bull. Hist. Med. 33 (1959), pp.393-44; 503-22; Wing B5126. See Lowndes 290. " (http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/browne-john-1642-1700-a-compleat-treatise-of-4959906-details.aspx)
As regards the watermarks ... an English book so :
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/archive-research/lima/paper/describing/databases/
Re the ten columns and 'moulds and deckles' :
http://paper.lib.uiowa.edu/european.php
Here there is a description of the page size:
Format
Folio – leaf: 370 x 225 mm.
Measuring the page is one thing to.
"In 1681 there was published an illustrated monograph on the muscles of the human body entitled A Complete Treatise of the Muscles, written and drawn by John Browne, surgeon-in-ordinary to king Charles II. The book was illustrated with 37 plates engraved by Nicholas Yeates. The book turned out to be very successful. The sheets of the first edition were re-issued in 1683 with a new title-page, and in 1697 a new edition appeared under the title of Myographia nova with 40 plates and an appendix on the heart by Richard Lower. In all ten translations were published between 1681 and 1705, five in English, four in Latin and one in German. "
https://hagstromerlibrary.ki.se/books/18179
Wow! thanks Kevin. what alot of info to digest! the size doesn't seem correct and it just seems like a newer copy, in my opinion. the page size is:
240 mm x 195 mm.
but all the info is very interesting!
Kevin: are you a professional researcher? it seems like it. if so, what is your field? you don't have to tell me, but i'm curious now!
Vetraio50, did you write your thesis on this subject?! What a mountain of information!!! I am more than just impressed!
Bibliography was part of my training at Sydney University under the guidance of Professor of Italian at the time the late Frederick May .... a genius. These pieces you find are extraordinary. They are difficult to work out but that's what interests me.
The genius must have rubbed off. (I hope that if coming across the right way; English is not my forte)
thanks again Kevin! i have some interesting ephemera i found in australia many years ago. if you'd like it, i'll send it to you next time i am back home in new england. email me at pete@eastbaywilds.com