M0014014: Two statues of Saint Lubin (Leobinus)

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Lubin (Leobinus), (15th September).

Two carved wooden statues of Saint Lubin (Leobinus) French hermit, abbot and bishop, invoked against dropsy. He is one of the six healing saints from Notre Dame du Haut, Moncontour, Brittany. One statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R593/1938) and the other was purchased in 1928 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R2413/1937). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

June 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12.5 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the item: R593/1938 (image 49) and acc. number R2413/1937 (image 26)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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