954 WILLIAM A. LOCY 
diseases by the various colors of the urine; the practice of vene- 
section and blood letting; comments on surgery; the figure of 
female anatomy, showing a foetus in the uterus; advice regarding 
diseases and, in 1493 and thereafter, the anatomy of Mundinus. 
Only two of the illustrations can be classed as anatomical, that 
showing the location of the viscera in the female (fig. 2), and pre- 
paration for opening the body cavity, first introduced in 1493, 
in connection with the Incipit Anathomia Mundini. The other 
illustrations show: the circle of 21 urine glasses, with circles 
indicating the four temperaments; the signs of the zodiac as 
related to parts of the body, as in the figures in the old almanacs; 
the points on the body for blood letting; a sick man on a couch; 
the wounded man, showing cuts, impact of clubs, ete. The draw- 
ings were made by Petrus de Montagnana. 
Fig. 2, reduced from the edition of 1491, gives a fair conception 
of the quality of the pictures. This figure is borrowed from 
Wieger, since I have not had the edition of 1491 for examination, 
but have examined the corresponding figure in various editions 
beginning with that of 1495. The sketch shows in outline the 
position of the viscera; the uterus is represented as opened and 
containing a foetus. In 1493 the drawing of the female figure 
was modified by observations, and after that date the illustra- 
tion bears the inscription ‘Tratta dal Natura.’ 
A very interesting connection between the printed copies of 
this book and its manuscript sources has been brought to lhght 
by Sudhoff. He found about 1907, in the Bibliothéque Nation- 
ale at Paris, a neatly written Latin manuscript of quarto size, 
and 54 leaves, which belongs to about the vear 1400. In this 
manuscript is a complete series of the Ketham pictures of 1491, 
and much of the Ketham text. After folio 45 in this manuscript 
is an anonymous treatise that agrees substantially with the 
Fasciculus Medicine of 1491. The text and figures of the Paris 
manuscript are not assembled as in the Ketham of 1491, but the 
text is in places identical, and the printed figures are evidently 
copies of the manuscript sketches. The way in which this col- 
lection of writings came to bear the name of Ketham is a matter 
of conjecture. Sudhoff thinks likely that there was a Johannis 
