M0007400: Manuscript illustration from Medicina Antiqua, depicting the use of impotence curative

Date:
6 September 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/63/55
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M0007400: Manuscript illustration from <i>Medicina Antiqua</i>, depicting the use of impotence curative. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Man about to drink decoction of herb priapiscus to cure impotence, 13th Century.

Description

Photograph of an illustration from Medicina Antiqua, a 13th century manuscript held by the Austrian National Library (Codex Vindobonensis 93). The illustration depicts the use of the herb Priapiscus to cure impotence with text in Latin above and marginalia to the right. Related images: M0007083, M0007084, M0007085, M0007086, M0007110, M0007114, M0007184, M0007185, M0007189, M0007201, M0007389, M0007390, M0007391, M0007392, M0007393, M0007394, M0007395, M0007396, M0007397, M0007398, M0007082, M0007401, M0007402

Publication/Creation

6 September 1940

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm photographic print; 14.3 x 11 cm

Notes

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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