M0008872: Oldest printed description and picture of the mistletoe: Hortus Sanitatis

Date:
05 April 1943
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/77/78
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M0008872: Oldest printed description and picture of the mistletoe: <i>Hortus Sanitatis</i>. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: The oldest printed description and picture of the mistletoe.

Description

Reproduction of a page from Hortus Sanitatis (1401), also written Ortus Sanitatis, published in Kanner, Leo: "Mistletoe, magic and medicine", Bulletin of the history of medicine, vol. 7 (1939)

Publication/Creation

05 April 1943

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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