M0001096: Vade mecum, c.1400 - eclipses

Date:
14 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/10/30
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M0001096: Vade mecum, c.1400 - eclipses. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Vade-mecum, circa 1400 - eclipses

Description

Pages of a medieval physician's portable handbook from c.1400 showing eclpises. Formerly in the possession of A. Dickson Wright M.R.C.S, but current whereabouts unknown. It is the same vade mecum discussed in Talbot, Charles Howell: “A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 16, no. 3, 1961, pp. 213–233. Related images: M0001093, M0001094EA, M0001094EB, M0001095, M0001097, M0001098, M0001099, M0001100, M0001101, M0001102, M0001102EA, M0001103, M0001104, M0001105.

Publication/Creation

14 August 1930

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 13 x 10 cm photographic print; 11.5 x 7.8 cm

Notes

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.

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