M0003800: Manuscript illustration "Gathering mandragora"

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Gathering mandragora.

Photograph of a print publication of a 12th century manuscript illustration with the caption "gathering mandragora." The image shows a nude man with a brace around his abdomen attached to a chain to a dog to his right. It appears the 'man' is representing the mandragora (mandrake) plant.

24 March 1934

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

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 2021.

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