M0007114: Page from Medicina Antiqua depicting a mandrake being attacked

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

Reproduction of a page from Medicina Antiqua, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna [Codex Vindobonensis 93]. It includes an illustration of a mandrake being attacked by two men with spears, and a man and dog in the background, with text in Latin above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5095). Related images: M0007083, M0007084, M0007085, M0007086, M0007110, M0007082, M0007184, M0007185, M0007189, M0007201, M0007389, M0007390, M0007391, M0007392, M0007393, M0007394, M0007395, M0007396, M0007397, M0007398, M0007400, M0007401, M0007402

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 5095.

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.