M0011930: Reproduction of a page from an Anglo Saxon herbal depicting the plant 'Solago minora' (heliotrope), a scorpion and a snake, circa 1050

Date:: 1951

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/106/26

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0011902-M0012008WT/D/1/20/1/106
        M0011930: Reproduction of a page from an Anglo Saxon herbal depicting the plant 'Solago minora' (heliotrope), a scorpion and a snake, circa 1050WT/D/1/20/1/106/26

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M0011930: Reproduction of a page from an Anglo Saxon herbal depicting the plant 'Solago minora' (heliotrope), a scorpion and a snake, circa 1050. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: Anglo Saxon herbal.

Description

Reproduction of a page from an Anglo Saxon herbal depicting the plant 'Solago minora' (heliotrope), a scorpion and a snake. The plant was said to have been an antidote to the bite and sting of these creatures. The reproduction is from the original mauscript, Cotton Vitellius C. III, folio 40r, held by the British Library (previously in the British Museum) and is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1951

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the photograph: PHO 12163

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British Museum/British Library

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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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