M0007069: Manuscript illustration of Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a mandrake root

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a Mandrake root.

Photograph of an illustration from De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, a 6th century Greek manuscript also known as the Juliana Anicia Codex, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. The illustration depicts Heuresis, the personification of invention or discovery, presenting the physician Dioscorides Pedanios with a mandrake root, with inscription above and below. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th September 1935 (PHO 4693). Related images: M0007070, M0007071

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 4693.

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.