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The Tartars’ Secret Weapon in Poland

In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dxxix

p. dxxix (173 of 214 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Conrad Schnitt (blockcutter), The Tartars’ Secret Weapon in Poland (Petri)

Actors

Conrad Schnitt (died 1541) blockcutter : 1544
Heinrich Petri (1508 - 24 April 1579) printer : 1544

Places

Basel production place : 1544

Design

Conrad Schnitt (blockcutter), The Tartars’ Secret Weapon in Poland (Petri) Part of Subset with ethnographic and landscape motifs (Petri) Part of Set for Münster's Cosmography 1544 (Petri) ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇥ The Tartars’ Secret Weapon in Poland (Sonnius/Chesneau) Part of Set for Belleforest's Cosmographie universelle (Sonnius/Chesneau) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Narrative

De Ungaria (Cosmographia, De Ungaria)

Functional context

Münster's Cosmographia (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

References

Web resources

digital copy (MDZ)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-11-17 20:22)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-08-11 19:46)