Digitised collections
Archives and Manuscripts
Rare Books Collection
History of Medicine Collection
Paintings, Prints and Drawings
Asian Collection
Moving Image and Sound Collection
Archives and Manuscripts
Recipe manuscripts online
Cover-to-cover digitisation of 17th century manuscripts from our collection of recipe (receipt) books. These contain medicinal, culinary and household and recipes.
Archives Digitisation Project: Genetics (20th century)
A project to digitise of up to half a million images from the Library's archival holdings based on the theme of genetics. This project started in January 2010, and will run to autumn 2012, when images will become available online.
Spilsbury case cards (1905-1933)
Personal papers of the late Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the 'father of modern forensics'.
The 'Physician's handbook', Wellcome MS.8004 (c. 1454)
An English medical and astrological compendium of some 100 leaves written in the middle of the 15th century.
Wellcome Apocalypse, Wellcome MS.49 (c. 1420)
Anatomical and medical texts including theological, moral and allegorical 'exempla' and extracts, a few in verse. Illustrated, with 292 emblematic, symbolic and anatomical tinted outline drawings and figures.
Rare Books Collection
16th century anatomical fugitive sheets
This is a rare and important collection of fragile teaching aids consisting of early printed illustrations of human bodies including illustrated flaps representing the different organs. These works were used by students of anatomy.
Mary Toft collection
The Library holds a comprehensive collection of early printed works from the 18th century concerning the notorious case of Mary Toft, a woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits.
Vesalius, Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome (1543)
A beautifully illustrated and influential anatomical textbook.
Christians refuge (1665)
Or Heavenly Antidotes to the Plague in this time of Generall Contaigon.
British Museum sale catalogue (1788)
A catalogue of the duplicate books, coins, and medals (our copy with buyers' names and prices).
Hippocratis prognosticon (1537)
Edited by Rabelais.
Anweisung zum rechten Gebrauch des physiognomischen - by Silbermann (1785)
This text describes the practice of face reading. The item includes two coloured measuring templates and two rulers (yellow for men and green for women), together with pamphlet in slipcase.
On Cutaneous Diseases - by Robert Willan (1808)
A landmark in the history of dermatology and in medical illustration.
History of Medicine Collection
Medical Journals Backfiles
The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is working on a project to digitise the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals.
Paintings, Prints and Drawings
AIDS posters
The Wellcome Library holds the fourth largest collection of AIDS posters in the world. Originating from 99 countries and in 75 languages, there are almost 3000 posters within the collection focused on safe sex, homosexuality and drugs, as well as many other topics including love, hate, fear, death, ignorance, discrimination, race and politics.
John Thomson collection
Born in Edinburgh in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria's accession, John Thomson travelled with his photographic apparatus to the other side of the world to bring back pictures of people, landscapes and artefacts of different cultures. This collection of almost 700 of Thomson's original glass negatives includes images of China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand and Cyprus.
Asian Collection
Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts
A cataloguing and digitisation project to make over 500 manuscripts available online as well as to develop a cataloguing tool for Arabic language manuscripts. Content will be available online in 2011.
Nujum al-'Ulum (Stars of Sciences) [Persian MS 373]
A rare example of both an astrological work and a school of painting from the Deccan sultanates of central and southern India.
Moving Image and Sound Collection
Wellcome Film
Digital film resource including a wide range of titles that have been produced over the past 100 years, covering all aspects of medicine, health and social care provision and practice in the UK.
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