M0016353: Woodcut showing a woman in bed and a seated man, both with syphilis, 1498

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Woodcut showing two people with syphilis.

Reproduction of the title page to Steber, Bartholomaeus: A malafranczos morbo Gallorum praeservatio ac cura, 1497, published in Sudhoff, Karl: The earliest printed literature on syphilis : being ten tractates from the years 1495-1498, in complete facsimile, Florence : Lier, 1925

September 1957

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10 x 8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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