Sometimes the professor changes places with the reader at the desk. In some later MSS. the teacher is figured as himself handling the body and demonstrating to his pupil (Plate [XXX a][132] and b[133]), but there is evidence that the miniatures portraying this are the work of artists unfamiliar with dissection and with the teaching of anatomy.
Fig. 3. A DISSECTION SCENE
From the Venice 1495 edition of ‘Ketham’ (compare Plate [XXVII]).
Fig. 4. From the English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495. The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book.
Fig. 5. A LECTURE ON ANATOMY
From the 1535 Venice edition of Berengar of Carpi’s Commentary on Mondino.