M0006169: Communal Bath of the 17th century / M0006175: Strigils hanging from a ring. / M0006178: Ilustration of a person bathing, 15th century manuscript / M0006179: Illustration of people bathing, 15th century manuscript

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Communal Bath of the 17th century.

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Strigils hanging from a ring.

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Patient bathing at a Medieval spring, 15th century manuscript.

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Patients bathing at a Mediaeval spring, XVth century.

Four images on one negative: one is a manuscript illumination of a mounted man at the door to a bath house, with Farsi text, from a Persian manuscript held by the National Library of France. Two are illustrations of a people bathing from an unknown 15th century manuscript. One is a photograph of six strigils hanging from two rings.

11 April 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.