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History, 15th Century

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Images from the collections

Images about this topic

22 images from works
  • Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • Hermaphrodite twins from De Hermaphroditorum, 1614
  • Various types of furnaces
  • Jean Jacques, a physician in traditional costume, 16--. Coloured engraving by L. Massard after himself.
  • Two money-lenders counting their money and keeping their accounts, one wears spectacles. Stipple engraving by T. Cheesman, 1791, after Q. Matsys.
  • Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving. 18--, after Stradanus, ca.1580.
  • A bishop wearing spectacles and a monk reading a book. Reproduction of a painting after Pisanello.
  • A physician in traditional costume examining urine in a flask, the young female patient is in bed, France 14--. Coloured etching by P. Pauquet after a 1493 manuscript.
  • Medieval Science in England. A 15th century
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
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Works from the collections

434 works

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    Michele Savonarola : medicina e cultura di corte / a cura di Chiara Crisciani e Gabriella Zuccolin.

    | Date: 2011
    • Books

    K nejstarsimu obdobi lekarske fakulty Karlovy univerzity / M. Rihova.

    Říhová, M. | Date: 1994
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    Les Toscans et leurs familles : une étude du "catasto" florentin de 1427 / David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ... ; [publié par le Centre de recherches historiques de Paris et par le] Centre national de la recherche scientifique, [Recherche coopérative sur programme no 181].

    David Herlihy | Date: 1978
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    Statuto inedito dell' arte degli speziali di Pisa nel secolo XV / pubblicato per cura di Pietro Vigo.

    Università dell' arte degli speziali, Pisa. | Date: 1969
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    L'hôpital / Robert de Balsac ; translated by Michel Pijoan.

    Robert de Balsac | Date: 1933
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Related topics

Incunabula as Topic
History of Medicine
Italy
Germany
Printing
Plague
England
Alchemy
France
Medieval

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