M0001103: Vade mecum text, c.1400

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Vade-mecum, circa 1400 - text

Pages of a medieval physician's portable handbook from c.1400. Formerly in the possession of A. Dickson Wright M.R.C.S, but current whereabouts unknown. It is the same vade mecum discussed in Talbot, Charles Howell: “A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 16, no. 3, 1961, pp. 213–233. Related images: M0001093, M0001094EA, M0001094EB, M0001095, M0001096, M0001097, M0001098, M0001099, M0001100, M0001101, M0001102, M0001102EA, M0001104, M0001105.

14 August 1930

2 photographs photographic print; 12 x 8 cm glass plate negative; 13 x 10 cm

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.

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