M0007069: Manuscript illustration of Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a mandrake root

Date:
30 July 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/60/58
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M0007069: Manuscript illustration of Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a mandrake root. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Heuresis presenting Dioscorides with a Mandrake root.

Description

Photograph of an illustration from De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, a 6th century Greek manuscript also known as the Juliana Anicia Codex, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. The illustration depicts Heuresis, the personification of invention or discovery, presenting the physician Dioscorides Pedanios with a mandrake root, with inscription above and below. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th September 1935 (PHO 4693). Related images: M0007070, M0007071

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

1 photograph 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 4693.

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.

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