M0007070: Manuscript illustration of Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a mandrake root
- Date:
- 30 July 1940
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Reproduction of an engraving, depicting Heuresis, the personification of invention or discovery, presenting the physician Dioscorides Pedanios with a mandrake root. The engraving was made after an illustration in De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, a 6th century Greek manuscript also known as the Juliana Anicia Codex, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th September 1935 (PHO 4694). Related images: M0007069, M0007071
Publication/Creation
30 July 1940
Physical description
1 photograph
sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm
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 4694.
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.
Terms of use
This item is fragile. Please consult the digitised version. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item By Appointment.
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Where to find it
Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request