M0007104: Manuscript illustration of charlatan doctor with assistant

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Charlatan with assistants.

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified 15th century manuscript, possibly from Vienna. This illustration is a minature depicting a charlatan doctor and his assistant standing on a table, addressing a crowd. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 20th July 1936 (PHO 8661).

30 July 1940

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 13.2 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 806. Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.