Frances Spiegel's List: Medicine and Society

The British Library has some of the world's finest and most important medieval Hebrew manuscripts including the magniciently illuminated North French Miscellany. Read about the manuscript's fascinating history, its beautiful illustrations and its complex and highly skilled calligraphy in this article published on Infobarrel. Every page is a work of art in its own right. The images demonstrate great skill and a fine sense of humour.

Thanks to a collaboration between the British Library and London publishers Facsimile Editions a limited edition facsimile has been produced thus allowing many more museums to display copies and increase awareness of this wonderful manuscript.

Medicine and Society looks at the history and culture of medicine through exhibitions, museums, art, artefacts, medical paraphernalia and books.