Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)
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– Ico1763
Aurochs († Bos primigenius)
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25F8(AUROCHS)
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Represented Nature
Biotic resources: Animalia: Chordata: Vertebrata: Gnathostomata: Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii: Tetrapoda: Mammalia: Eutheria: Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Bovinae: Bos: Bos taurus: † Bos taurus primigenius
Related Narratives
Animals of Scythia (Naturalis historia (lat.), VIII, 38-39)
Animals of the Hercynian Forest (Commentarii de bello Gallico (lat.), VI, 26-28)
Antro Coratius's Cow (Moralia, Question 4)
Fertility of ancient Germania (Cosmographia, III, De Germania)
Herberstein's description of aurochs (urus) (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii)
Moscovia (Cosmographia, IV, Descriptio ... regnorum septentrionalium)
Prutenia seu Prussia (Cosmographia, III, De Germania)
Quis furor est caeco temere se offerre furoris. Cede, parum exspecta, nec mora, victor eris (Symbolorum et emblematum centuriae tres, XIX)
Two domesticated cattle in the Carinae that climbed up a stairway to the roof of a house (Ab urbe condita, XXXVI.37)
Vigenère's annotations to De bello Gallico (Annotations de Vigenère sur les commentaires de Cesar)
Related Functional Contexts
Aesop's Fables
Aldrovandi's zoological works (Natural history)
Camerarius Emblemata (Emblem book)
Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)
Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell (Natural history)
Herberstein's Notes on Muscovite Affairs
Hortus sanitatis or plants or animals catalogue (Natural history)
Jonston's zoological works (Natural history)
Münster's Cosmographia (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)
Pliny (Natural history)
Related Captions
Bison (Wisent)
Bos sylvestris
Bubalus (Büffel, Buffalo)
Currenti cede furori
Urus (Auerochs)
Alternate name
Broader Iconographies
Extinct animals (Iconclass: 25F8)
Hoofed animals (Iconclass: 25F24)
Narrower Iconographies
Aurochs horn (Iconclass: 25F8(AUROCHS)(+332))
Aurochs Skeleton from Hassleben
Kalisz Land coat of arms (aurochs or wisent head)
Wallachia or Moldavia coat of arms (aurochs's head)
Wieniawa coat of arms (aurochs or wisent head)
