M0007060: Manuscript illustration of a still for mercury

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Still.

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified 14th century manuscript on alchemy, held by the Albertina Museum Library, Vienna, depicting a still for mercury with a scroll containing inscription "Sublimatio Mercurii" above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 26th August 1935 (PHO 3793). There are holes in the film in the lower left. Related images: M0007060, M0007059.

30 July 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 3793.

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.