Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

The title is immediately followed by the dedicatory epistle of Magnus Hundt of Magdeburg, Master of the Liberal Arts of Leipzig, to the illustrious prince and lord, Lord Wolfgang, born of noble blood, Count of Anhalt, his gracious lord, to whom he professes he owes the greatest thanks for the utmost benevolence frequently shown to his own brother. It is pleasant to read, filled with various monuments of ancient authors, and written at Leipzig in the Prince's College on the 25th of February, 1501, crowned with this closing acclamation:

O almighty Father, who created all things with a word,
Offer help to the traveler, that he may reach the honest port.

This letter is followed by the author's short preface, in which he briefly explains his plan. The book itself follows, divided into 60 chapters and distinguished throughout by various icons of the parts of the human body, drawn with a thicker pen and rays indicating the heavens. It would be long to enumerate here all the titles of the sections or chapters. It is enough to say that Hundt proceeded in an order almost customary among us. But I must review certain figures that we see. Thus, in chapter XXX, which is inscribed On the external members in a more general sense, a table is seen which shows the figure of the whole human and the external seats, with titles inscribed for each. In Chapter XXXI, On the human head, its figure is delineated, with the ventricles of the brain also indicated, as well as another figure,