M0007270: Manuscript illustration of muscles of the human body

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Muscles of the human body, anatomical illustration, Persian

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified Persian manuscript held by the India Office, London, now in the British Museum. The illustration depicts the muscles of the human body with annotations in Farsi. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 5th October 1936 (PHO 8883).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 8883.

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.