M0007059: Manuscript illustrations depicting a still for the water of life and a swan with signets

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Still for the Water of Life.

Photograph of two illustrations from an unidentified 14th century manuscript on alchemy, held by the Albertina Museum Library, Vienna. The first illustration depicts a still for the water of life with scroll above containing inscription. The second illustration underneath depicts a swan and it's signets. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 26th August 1935 (PHO 3790). Related images: M0007060, M0007061.

30 July 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 3790.

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.