M0007079: Manuscript illustration of physician with patient drinking

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Miniatures: Physician (?) with urine flask, patient drinking

Photograph of an illustration from Constantinus Africanus by Dioscorides, a 14th century manuscript, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna (Cod. 2315). The illustration possibly depicts a monk physician next to a patient drinking from a flask, possibly urine, with text in Latin. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 16th September 1935 (PHO 4644). Related images: M0007078, M0007077, M0007080.

30 July 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 15.8 x 11.4 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 4644.

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.