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Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST
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This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book's vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Research Methods for the Census
1.3 Historiographical Intervention
2 A Valuable Book
2.1 Historical Price Analysis
2.2 Showcasing Ownership: Bindings
2.3 Decoration and Function: Hand-Colored Copies
3 Provenance
3.1 The Physician's Book: Ownership between 1550-1650
3.2 The Jesuit Century: Ownership between 1650-1750
3.3 The Years of Change: Ownership between 1750-1850
3.4 Vesalius in America: Ownership between 1850-1950
3.5 The Global Fabrica: Ownership since 1950
4 Reading and Annotating the Fabrica: The Sporadic Reader
4.1 The Typical Reader: A Case Study from Los Angeles
4.2 The Average Reader: A Frequency Analysis
4.3 Scribbling at the Front: Fashioning the Reader and the Author
4.4 Image and Text: Learning to See
4.5 Personal Experience and Bookish Learning
4.6 The Body in Parts: Generation and Control
4.7 Creating Order: Corrections, Errata, and Search Techniques
5 Censorship: Controlling Reading
5.1 Licensed Readers
5.2 Soul and Sex
6 Conclusion
Guide to the Catalogue
CATALOGUE
1543 Editions
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
1555 Editions
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Copies Sold at Auctions Since 1990
1543 Editions
1555 Editions
Private Copies
1543 Editions
1555 Editions
Appendix
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Owners
Index of Places of Ownership
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