M0007072: Manuscript illustration of a mandrake in Codex Byzantinus

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Mandrake, 12th century Codex Byzantinus.

Photograph of an illustration from Codex Byzantinus, a 12th century manuscript held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna, depicting a mandrake with inscription above. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5092).

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 5092.

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.