M0007170: Manuscript illustration of patients bathing at healing springs, possibly symbolising baptism

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Symbolic miniature (?) Christ baptising. Healing springs (?) XVth century

Photograph of an illustration from an unidentified 15th century manuscript. The illustration is a minature depicting a group of people at a healing spring, possibly being symbolically baptised by Christ. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 29th August 1935 (PHO 4223). Related images: M0007171

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 4223.

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.