M0007397: Manuscript illustration from Medicina Antiqua, depicting a physician binding a leaf around a patient's throat

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Herbe plantaginis: Physician binds leaf about patient's throat, 13th Century

Photograph of an illustration from Medicina Antiqua, a 13th century manuscript held by the Austrian National Library (Codex Vindobonensis 93), depicting a physician binding a leaf around a patient's throat with text in Latin above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 9th October 1935 (PHO 5166). Related images: M0007083, M0007084, M0007085, M0007086, M0007110, M0007114, M0007184, M0007185, M0007189, M0007201, M0007389, M0007390, M0007391, M0007392, M0007393, M0007394, M0007395, M0007396, M0007082, M0007398, M0007400, M0007401, M0007402

6 September 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 15.4 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5166.

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.