M0007116: Page from a 14th century herbal manuscript depicting a mandrake

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Page from a Ms. 14th c. Vienna.

Reproduction of a page from an unidentified 14th century herbal manuscript, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. It includes an illustration of a mandrake with surrounding text in Latin. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5095).

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 5095.

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.