Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico1777] Elephant
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T56490] Mappa Mundi - the Old World. In Jan of Stobnica, Leaf with with maps of the world extracted from Introductio in Ptholomei Cosmographia, Cracow: Florian Ungler (printer), 1513 (Munich, BSB) ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T52192] Elephant (for Ivory - Elephanten zan, Ebur, Hellfenbeyn). In Johannes de Cuba, Kreutterbůch von allem Erdtgewächs: Mit warer Abconterfeitung aller Kreuter, Eucharius Rösslin (compiler), Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1533 (Munich, BSB), p. XCIII ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T53925] Title-page Border with Quadrupeds. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs Volumen Integrum ..., Frankfurt am Main: Johann Hofer (printer), 1623 (Freiburg im Breisgau, UB), fol. A1r ◼ printing: impression page: marginalia and borders paper book decoration: title page
[T5466] Giovanni Battista Coriolano (printmaker), Title page of Aldrovandi's De quadripedibus solipedibus. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs ..., Bologna: Vittorio Benacci (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1616 (Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), fol. A1r ◼ printing: impression page: marginalia and borders engraving paper book decoration: title page
[T49816] Quadrupeds. In Konrad von Megenberg, Hye nach volget das puch der natur, Augsburg: Johann Bämler (printer), 30 October 1475 (Munich, BSB) ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut, hand colouring paper
[T41134] Elephant (for Bone char - Spodium, gebrant helfen beyn). In Gart der Gesundheit, Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Mainz: Peter Schöffer (printer), before 28 March 1485 (Munich, BSB), fol. 295r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut, hand colouring paper book decoration: illustration
[T43284] Map of Ethiopia. In Hiob Ludolf, Iobi Lvdolfi alias Leut-holf dicti Historia Aethiopica ..., Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1681 (Prague, NK ČR) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T47802] Elephant (Elphas). In Viellerley wu[n]derbarlicher Thier des Erdtrichs Mehrs vnd des Luffts allen anfahenden Malern vnd Goldtschmieden nuetzlich Sampt andern Kuenstnern, Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1546 (Munich, BSB), fol. B4v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T44374] Elephant (Helffant). In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. IVr ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T29705] Elephant Hunt. In Quintus Curtius Rufus, Kwintvsa Kurcyvsa O Dzieiach Alexandra Wielkiego ..., Andrzej Wargocki (translator), Cracow: Stanisław Giermański (printer), [after 2 February] 1618 (Cracow, Holy Trinity Church and Dominican Cloister, Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji oo. Dominikanów), p. 108 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9049] Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In Ambroise Paré, Discours D'Ambroise Pare ... asçavoir, De La Mvmie, Des Venins, De La Licorne Et De La Peste ..., Paris: Gabriel Buon (printer), 1582 (Paris, BnF), fol. 25 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T6495] Sebastian Münster (designer), Conrad Schnitt (printmaker), Sumatra (Tabula Asiae XII). In Geographia Vniversalis Vetvs Et Nova ... Addita sunt insuper Scholia ... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaic[a]e... opera Sebastiani Munsteri ..., Sebastian Münster (compiler), Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1540 (Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka) ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T4512] Tab. VII (Elphas). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 16 (ii) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T4514] Tab. IX (Elephas). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 16 (iv) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T9066] Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In Ambroise Paré, Les Oevvres d’Ambroise Paré ..., Paris: Gabriel Buon (printer), 1579 (Paris, Bibliothèques d'Université Paris Cité - Bibliothèque numérique Medica), p. LX ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9045] Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In André Thevet, Les Singvlaritez De La France Antarctiqve, Avtrement Nommée Amerique ..., Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (printer), 1558 (Paris, BnF), fol. 40v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9100] Elphas. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου Μανουηλου τοῦ Φιλη στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ πρὸσ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα μιχαὴλ τὸν παλαιολόγον περὶ τῆς τῶν ζώων ἰδιότητος, manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library), fol. 27r ◼ drawing page: figure pen, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T37418] Title page decoration with various animals. In Albertus Magnus, Von wunderbar natürlichen Wirckungen, Eygenschafften vnd Naturen ..., Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1531 (Munich, BSB), fol. A1r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T44764] Elephant (Elephas). In Ortus sanitatis, Johannes de Cuba (compiler attr.), Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach (printer), 23 June 1491 (Munich, BSB), fol. 271r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T5163] Hans Rudolf Manuel called Deutsch (printmaker), Title border with rulers and inhabitants of distant lands. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), fol. A1r ◼ printing: impression page: marginalia and borders woodcut paper book decoration: title page