impression:T4638

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T4638

Aurochs? Asian Water Buffalo? (Buffelus sive Bubalus vulgaris)

In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Johannes Cornelius Uterverius (compiler), Thomas Dempster (compiler), Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 366

p. 366 (37 of 88 in-Urus figures)

Details

printing: impression
woodcut
paper
page: figure
book decoration: illustration
matrix h: 144 mm
matrix w: 187 mm
matrix d: 21 mm

Matrices

Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Aurochs? Asian Water Buffalo? (Bonomi; Ferroni) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna) ◼

Actors

Cristoforo Coriolano (fl. ca 1587 - 1603) blockcutter : 1585 - 1605
Sebastiano Bonomi (fl. ca 1585 - ca 1623) printer : 1621

Places

Bologna production place : 1621

Design

Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Aurochs? Asian Water Buffalo? (Bonomi; Ferroni) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna) Part of Set for Aldrovandi's works ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇤ Aurochs? Asian Water Buffalo? (Bubalus Romanus Buffalo vulgo). In Tavole acquarellate, vol. 1 (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna). Part of Drawings collected by Ulisse Aldrovandi's (so-called Tavole acquarellate) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna), fol. 82 ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Functional context

Aldrovandi's zoological works (Natural history)

Caption

Bubalus (Büffel, Buffalo)

Credits

Created on

2021-10-13 13:37

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-02-07 10:42)