M0008872: Oldest printed description and picture of the mistletoe: Hortus Sanitatis

Previous title, replaced October 2020: The oldest printed description and picture of the mistletoe.

Reproduction of a page from Hortus Sanitatis (1401), also written Ortus Sanitatis, published in Kanner, Leo: "Mistletoe, magic and medicine", Bulletin of the history of medicine, vol. 7 (1939)

05 April 1943

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.