« Back to “Drawing and the Learned Tradition”
« Back to Curatorial Comment: “From Animal to Art: The Story of Parchment”
Anatomical Diagrams
From the Salomon Glossaries
Prüfening, Germany, 1158 and 1165
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Clm. 13002
Another work which speaks to the wide-ranging intellectual interests of the monks in the newly formed monastery of Prüfening, this encyclopedic-lexicographic reference includes an array of drawings with learned content, including a series of medical illustrations. Among the earliest surviving anatomical diagrams, these two pages display five systems of the body—arterial, venous, skeletal, nervous, and muscular—as described by the Greek physician Galen.