A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Date:
1987
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Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A note on the title of the exhibition There is a long tradition of literary and pictorial 'mirrors'. Our title might therefore be regarded as an inheritor of the short title of the Spiegl der Artzny by Laurent Priesz of Colmar [Strassburg: J. Griininger, 1519]. But before this there were many other such 'mirrors', notably the Specu- lum majus of Vincent of Beauvais [13th century], consisting of the 'Specu- lum historiale' (history of mankind to 1254), 'Speculum naturale' (ency- clopaedia of nature), and 'Speculum doctrinale' comprising all the learned, liberal, practical and mechanical arts, including medicine. The first illustrated book to be published in England was Caxton's Myrrour of the worlde, 1481, an encylopaedia translated from the French, which explained, inter alia, 'how moche the erth hath of heyght, how moche in circuyte, and how thycke in the myddle'. for the History ^dUndetstan^g U£LLC0ME ^^HrCOLLECTION / © Trustees of the Wellcome Trust
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