M0008070: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child during childbirth

Date:: 20 August 1941

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/69/77

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0007990-M0008094WT/D/1/20/1/69
        M0008070: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child during childbirthWT/D/1/20/1/69/77

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M0008070: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child during childbirth. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child.

Description

Drawing of an amulet reproduced in Trachtenberg, Joshua: Jewish magic and superstition: a study in folk religion, New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1939.

Publication/Creation

20 August 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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