M0007071: Manuscript illustration of an artist drawing a mandrake being held by Heuresis

Previous title, replaced May 2020: An artist drawing a mandrake being held by Euresis.

Photograph of an illustration from De Materia Medica by Dioscorides, a 6th century Greek manuscript also known as the Juliana Anicia Codex, held by the Austrian National Library, Vienna. The illustration depicts Heuresis, the personification of invention or discovery, holding a mandrake being drawn by an artist and Dioscorides seated to the right, writing a description, with decorative border. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 17th September 1935 (PHO 4692). Related images: M0007070, M0007069

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 4692.

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.