Jacopo Berengario da Carpi Isagoge breves in anatomiam humani corporis, Strasbourg: H. Sybod, 1530, R6verso-R7recto, woodcut, leaf height 14.5 cm, 5000.e.52.

Jacopo Berengario’s Short introduction followed Mondino’s arrangement of three cavities of the body (the lower, middle and upper ‘venters’) starting with the lower (intestinal) venter, the part that putrefies first. The skeletal structure was treated in the last section on extremities.

The woodcut to the left was intended to show all the bones of the human body from the front, except for those in the head and the back; the woodcut to the right is for bones of the back and the skull: the skull on the left was meant to show the coronal commissure, the skull in the middle the sagittal commissure, the skull to the right the jaws and part of the coronal commissure. Using these two figures, Berengario thus sought to provide a comprehensive view of the bones, though he noted that joints could only be seen in bodies that had been boiled or dried out in cemeteries.

These woodcuts were small and crude, and the relevant details are coarsely represented. The annotations to the figures, however, indicate that a reader did try to understand the anatomy of skull using these images.