Skeleton, brain, nerves, from John Banister's Anatomical Tables, c. 1580.
From the Anatomy Acts Exhibition website (via Morbid Anatomy).
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Hi. Glad you like this! That Anatomy Acts Site is a wonderful source; the book is quite wonderful as well.