M0005441: Miraculous Cure of Master Dydo, physician to King Louis IX of France

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Miraculous Cure of Master Dydo

Photograph of a manuscript miniature depicting the miraculous cure of the physician to Louis IX of France in 1271. The miniature is from a 15th century manuscript "La Vie de Saint-Denys" held by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris. The photograph was compiled by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee, for his Royal Society of Medicince lecture in 1938

March 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 2021.

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