[Mediaeval anatomic iconography (part I)]

In the study there is presented a genesis of anatomic drawing. Originated in ancient Greece, through Alexandria it came to Europe through Rome and through Constantinople or Salerno. Describing the drawings from libraries in Pisa (1220), Oxford (1290), Prufening (1158), Provance (around 1250), Oxford (1292), Dresden (1323), Roudnic (1399) and the Persian manuscript (around 1400) the author has carried out the comparative analysis of individual systems presented in them, and has defined their archetypes.