Vesaliana

INTRODUCTION
5. The following numbers in Cushing have been deleted because they have nothing to do with
Vesalius: 30 (Baudrier, 1912), 79 (Choulant, 1841), 201 (Hundt, 1501), and 206 (Ingrassia,
1547?).
Sources
It goes without saying that CUSHING, with the additions by O’MALLEY, formed the firm basis
to start with. The titles that they contain which were published before Vesalius’s time - the socalled
pre-Vesaliana - have been omitted, because they have nothing to do with Vesalius
himself. The numbers concerned are 30, 34, 35, 54, 58, 66, 116, 147, 167, 269, 466 and 571.
Number 338, a later publication, has been omitted too, for the same reason. After that I started
screening for other published Vesaliana and searching for the relevant titles they contained. At
the same time several ones came via the catalogues of the large university libraries and of
antiquarians, as they are mentioned in the legend of sources. The already published lists, with
Vesaliana mentioned by Cushing were looked at but revealed nothing he had not mentioned
already in his publication. The World Wide Web delivered many Vesalius sites but only a few
articles and books that could not be found elsewhere. The sites themselves are not cited,
except when they allow downloading the specified article.
In 1993 Roger CALCOEN published an important list of new Vesaliana that were also
numbered (3). His 298 new entries since Cushing are recognisable by the mentioning of
[RC1] to [RC298] at the end of the title. As with the Cushing numbers, they were saved, even
when I could personally consult the article. Unfortunately the numbers do not always follow
an exact order due to inconsistencies in alphabetical order and because the sequence of entries
within the same author does not always follow the exact chronology. But a quick search for an
item specifically out of Calcoen’s list remains possible: only the number RC279 is to be found
between the references beginning with ‘Andreas Vesalius ...’. So by adding the numbers
assigned by Cushing (1943), O’Malley (1962) and Calcoen (1993) at the end of each of their
titles between brackets, the present list still permits one to find a Vesalianum on the basis of
their numberings.
Composition
A serious attempt has been made to group several editions and translations of the same work
into one entry only, but when sufficient proof was lacking a new entry was created.
Completeness
Although a considerable effort has been made to find all the existing Vesaliana, this list is not
complete. Whereas Dr. Cushing achieved his goal reasonably well to include "all references
to general literature cited in the preceding chapters [of his Vesalius bio-bibliography],
including a few entries of purely bibliographical character", even today it is possible to find
Vesalania not mentioned by him, although existing in his days. This is not a surprise since
also for him "titles continued to accumulate up to the date of publication". The situation has
developed greatly since then: growing numbers of new articles, books and the internet result
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