Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
412 CURTIS, Robert H. Great lives: medicine, New York, Scribner’s, New York -
Toronto, Maxwell Macmillan, 1993, 326 pp., ill. [USM]
Biographies for the youth, also of Andreas Vesalius.
412.20 * CURTIUS, Matthaeus. Matthaei Curtii in Mundini Anatomen commentarius elegans
et doctus [Elegant and learned comment of Matthaeus Curtius on the anatomy of
Mondinus], Lugduni, apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1551, 549 pp., 3 ll.
[HC291]
Prefatory note of 1550 by Jean Canappe to Vesalius: "Ioannes Canappaeus, Andreae
Vuaselio (sic), Medico undecunque doctissimo".
413 * CURVERS, Alexis (transl.). André Vésale: Lettres latin-français, Liège, Editions
Nationales, 1982, 13 pp., ill. [BNF]
Text in Latin and French: transcription and translation by Alexis Curvers of two letters to
Jerôme van Hamme and one to Henricus Petri. Also a copy of the manuscript for the bishop
of Limoges, dated 18 Feb. 1561.
414 CUSHING, Harvey. ‘Portraits of Vesalius’ in New York Medical Journal, 1915,
101: 489-490. [HC101]
414.30 * CUSHING, Harvey. ‘Introduction’ in Giovanni Battista CANANO,. Musculorum
humani corporis picturata dissectio [Illustrated anatomy of the muscles of the
human body], Florence, R. Lier & Co., 1925, 97 pp., illl.
Cushing reports on a fragment of the Tabualae anatomica sex, which should been moved
from Munich to Louvain.
414.60 * CUSHING, Harvey. Letter to Henry Sigerist, New Haven, March 24, 1934, 1 f.
On the relative importance of the text and Calcar’s illustrations in the 1543 Fabrica and the
views of Ivins. See also 919.
415 * CUSHING, Harvey. ‘"Apologia" from an unfinished bibliography of Vesalius’ in
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1940, 8: 381-391.
With an introductory note by W. W. Francis. See no. 416, 2nd ed. on p. xv.
416 * CUSHING, Harvey. A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, New York,
Schuman's, 1943, xxvii, 229 pp., ill.
Together with the biographies by O’Malley (no. 1323) and Roth (no. 1537) named by
Lindeboom as the ‘firm tripod’ on which the study of Vesalius should be based. Chapter X
is a bibliography on Vesalius and his works.
First edition; only 800 copies. For a book review by Owsei Temkin see no. 1775; there
should be a review by Ch. Singer also. For a discussion see ‘Cushing on Vesalius’ in The
Lancet, 1944, 244: 84.
Second edition: Hamden-London, Archon books, 1962, 4°, xxxviii, 264 pp., ill.
(Publications of the Historical Library of Yale Medical Library, 6) [RC73] Facsimile reprint
of the edition of 1943 with an addendum of 323 more Vesaliana by Prof. O’Malley in
chapter X, which brings the total at 728.
Despite several attempts, the book has never since been re-published due to copyright
problems (ed., personal communication in 2003).
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