Examples of woodcut blocks actually used in 16th - 17th century medical books

 Xylography Blocks Index:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

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No.	Printed image	Wood block	Description of Source (Book, etc.)
21			Author: Mondino de Luzzi (ca. 1270-1326) Book: Anatomia Mundini, ca. 1536 Continued...
22			Author: Michael Ostendorfer (1495-1549) Date: 1555 Engraving from a book on bloodletting for plague Continued...
23			Author: Jacopo Berengario da Carpi's (ca. 1460-ca. 1530). Book:  Isagogae breues, perlucidae ac uberrimae in anatomiam Continued...
24			Author: Unknown. Woodcutter: Hans Burgkmair. Date: 1516 Continued...
25			Author: Unknown Block showing conjoined twins is dated 1569 but unattributed Continued...
26			Author: Brunschwig, Hieronymus (ca. 1450-ca. 1512) Book: The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, Continued...
27			Author: Possibly Ambroise Pare from the 1560s. Shows a person in lithotomy position about to undergo a urologic procedure. Continued...
28			Author: Walter Hermann Ryff (1500-1548) Book: Die Kleyner Chirurgei Continued...
29			Author: Unknown. Has some similarities to block 10 which is attributed to Johann Wolhopter (1512). Continued...
30			Author: Magnus Hundt (1449-1519). Book: "Antropologium de hominis dignitate."  Date: 1501.  Continued...
31			Author: Unknown Subject: The Monster of Ravenna Continued....
32			Author: Petrus Hispanus. Date: ca. 1497 Book: Thesaurus Pauperum Continued...
33			Author: Unknown, but similar to Hieronymus Brunschwig Book: Similar to "Das Buch der Cirurgia" ca. 1530 Continued...
34			Author: Unknown. Book: Der Schapherders Kalender : Eyn sere schone unde nutthe boek, myt velen fruchtbaren materien, so tho rugge dusses blades klarlike gefunden wert (Rostock, L. Dyetz, 1523 Continued...
35			Author: Possibly Helkiah Crooke (1576-1635) Book: Microcosmographia: A Description of the body of man Continued...
36			Author: Unknown Book: Unknown Continued...
37			Author: Helkiah Crooke (1576-1635) Book: Microcosmographia: A Description of the body of man Continued...
38			Author: Possibly Kelkiah Crooke (1576-1635) Book: Possibly from Microcosmographia: A description of the body of man Continued...
39			Author: Possibly Helkiah Crooke (1576-1635) Book: Possibly from Microcosmographia: A Description of the body of man Continued...
40			Author: Vitruvius Pollio Book: M. Vitruvius per locundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit (1511) Continued...