M0007712: Casket containing a skull (St. Cosmas or St. Damian?)

Previous title, replaced September 2020: Casket containing a skull (St. Cosmas or St. Damian?)

Reproduction of a photograph of a casket containing a skull, possibly St. Cosmas or St. Damian. The photograph was taken at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, Spain and was reproduced in an article by Antonio Nunez De Rivera published in the Bulletin of Medicine no.51, 1st July 1935.

17 August 1940

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 2020.

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