M0007116: Page from a 14th century herbal manuscript depicting a mandrake

Date:
30 July 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/61/4
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M0007116: Page from a 14th century herbal manuscript depicting a mandrake. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Page from a Ms. 14th c. Vienna.

Description

Reproduction of a page from an unidentified 14th century herbal manuscript, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. It includes an illustration of a mandrake with surrounding text in Latin. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5095).

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5095.

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

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