M0007924: "Blood-letting man", manuscript illustration

Previous title, replaced September 2020: "Blood-letting man".

Illustration of "Blood-letting man". His body is covered with marks indicating the sites for venesection. The names of the signs of the Zodiac indicates the part of the body influenced by different planets. From a manuscript held by the Royal Danish Library (reference Codex. Ny. Kgl. Saml. 84b folio 1)

11 June 1941

1 photograph glass plate negative; 18.5 x 14 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.

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