M0007057: Manuscript illustration of Alchemical flask containing Rosa Alba

Date:: 30 July 1940

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/60/46

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        M0007057: Manuscript illustration of Alchemical flask containing Rosa AlbaWT/D/1/20/1/60/46

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M0007057: Manuscript illustration of Alchemical flask containing Rosa Alba. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Alchemical drawing. Flask containing "Rosa Alba".

Description

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified 14th century manuscript on alchemy, possibly held by Saxon State and University Library Dresden, depicting an alchemical flask containing a woman, with scroll above containing inscription Rosa Alba. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 24th August 1935 (PHO 3761). Related images: M0007056.

Publication/Creation

30 July 1940

Physical description

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 3761.

Notes

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.

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