M0007111: Manuscript page with illustration of a mandrake being uprooted by a dog

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Uprooting the mndrake, manuscript 16th c.

Reproduction of a page from an unidentified 16th century manuscript, held by the Royal Library, Brussels. It includes an illustration depicting a mandrake being uprooted by a dog and a man stood next to him, with text in Latin above and below. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5101).

30 July 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5101.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.