M0005421: Mandrake in flower, Livre des simples medecines, c.1470

Date:: 3 February 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/44/49

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        M0005421: Mandrake in flower, Livre des simples medecines, c.1470WT/D/1/20/1/44/49

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M0005421: Mandrake in flower, <i>Livre des simples medecines</i>, c.1470. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Mandrake in flower.

Description

Illustration of a mandrake in flower and three partite roots from a French manuscript purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1935 and accessioned in 1935 (accession 68483). Related images: M0005419, M0005420, M0005422, M0005423

Publication/Creation

3 February 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.626

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 2021.

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