Anatomical fugitive sheet

Anatomical fugitive sheets are illustrations of the human body specially created to display internal organs and structures.

[1][2] The earliest known examples of these sheets were published in Strasbourg by the engraver and printer Heinrich Vogtherr in 1538, and probably existed in great numbers although very few have survived.

Andreas Vesalius published his anatomical work on the human body, "De humani corporis fabrica", four years later in 1543.

His "Tabulae anatomicae sex" had appeared in 1538 showing skeletons and viscera, and differ substantially from the Ruel plates.

[3] A letter in the British National Archives is from Edmund Bonner, the English ambassador at the court of Francis I in Paris and future bishop of London.