M0011824: Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "double pelican" from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512

Date:: April 1951

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/105/26

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        M0011824: Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "double pelican" from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512WT/D/1/20/1/105/26

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M0011824: Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "double pelican" from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: Alchemical apparatus.

Description

Reproduction of a woodcut of alchemical apparatus known as the "double pelican" from Brunschwig, Hieronymus (approximately 1450-approximately 1512): Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis. Das buch der waren kunst zu distillieren die Composita und simplicia, und dz Buch thesaurus pauperum, Ein schatz d'armen genant Micarium, die brösamlin gefallen von den büchern d'Artzny, und durch Experiment von mir Jheronimo bruschwick uff geclubt und geoffenbart zu trost denen die es begeren Strassburg : J. Grüninger, 1512.

Publication/Creation

April 1951

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.8 x 8.3 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

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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 2022.

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