M0005756: Eden before the fall

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Eden befor the fall.

Photograph of an illustration in an illuminated manuscript depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The illustration comes from Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes held at the British Library (reference Royal MS 18 E V). The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in September 1938 (accession number PHO 10986).

10 October 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.