M0007409: Manuscript illustration of St. Paul wearing spectacles

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Spectacles 14th century. Portrait of St. Paul.

Photograph of an illustration depicting St. Paul wearing spectacles, reproduced from Heymann, Alfred: Lunettes et lorgnettes de jadis, Paris : J. Leroy et cie, 1911. The original illustration is in a copy of Bible historiale, 14th century, held by the National Library of France, Paris, . Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 9th December 1937 (PHO 9063). Related images: M0007406, M0007412

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.8 x 13.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced. Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 9063.

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.