Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

The title is immediately followed by a dedicatory epistle from Magnus Hundt, of Parthenopolis original: 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 shown to his own kinsman on many occasions. It is pleasant to read, filled with various monuments of ancient authors, and was written at Leipzig in the College of the Prince on the seventh day before the Kalends of March, 1501, crowned with this epiphonema an exclamatory summary:

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

This epistle is followed by the author's short preface, in which he briefly explains his undertaking. The book itself follows, divided into 60 chapters and distinguished throughout by various illustrations of the parts of the human body, outlined with a cruder musing and rays in the style of the heavens referring to the woodcut style. It would be long to relate all the titles of the sections or chapters here. Let it suffice to say that Hundt has proceeded in an order familiar to us. But I must review certain figures which we see. Thus, in chapter XXX, which is inscribed concerning the exterior members in general, a table is seen which shows the figure of the whole man and the exterior seats, with titles inscribed for each. Chapter XXXI, concerning the human head, has its figure delineated, with the ventricles of the brain indicated, just as there is another figure,