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MUNDINUS [MONDINO DEI LUZZI] (ca 1275-1326). Anathomia Mundini. Edited by Vincentius Georgius. Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, for Hieronymus de Durantibus, 20 February 1494/95. Small 4 o (205 x 151 mm). Collation : aa-ff 4 . 24 leaves. 43 lines. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Some browning and staining.) Modern calf; cloth slipcase. Provenance : purchased from H.P. Kraus, New York. Early edition of one of the most influential mediaeval medical texts. "Mondino was probably the first to introduce the systematic teaching of anatomy into medicine and it is from his era that the body began to be dissected in an orderly fashion, one part after another. Written in 1316, his Anothomia was copied, expanded, altered, and republished for almost two centuries..." (See Heirs of Hippocrates 54 for the 1493 Leipzig edition.) H * 11638; Goff M-875.