Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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PhD researcher, Kierri Price, describes the cultural and religious significance of a medieval birthing girdle from around 1500 held within Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Library catalogue:
Birth scroll with prayers and invocations to Saints Quiricus and Julitta
Saints Quiricus & Julitta ( -304)
Date: c. 1500
Reference: MS.632
wellcomecollection.org/works/mwzwv2m7

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