Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico5768] One-horned animals
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T68269] One-Horned Giraffe. Part of Album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds (London, BM) drawing watercolour 323 236 1601 ‑ 1700 1601‑01‑01 1700‑12‑31
[T69766] Jan (II) Tons (draughtsman), Lynx, one-horned giraffe, horse and parrots (Cracow, Wawel Royal Castle). Part of Landscape and animal scenes (verdure). Part of Jagiellonian tapestries (the Wawel Arrasses) crafts set or complex object: piece textile: silk 3220 3930 1550 ‑ 1560 1550‑01‑01 1560‑12‑31
[T19620] Monokeros. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library), fol. 28r drawing page: figure pen, washes parchment: vellum book decoration: illustration
[T5724] Onager. In Pier Candido Decembrio, De animantium naturis, manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 45v drawing page: marginalia and borders tempera parchment book decoration: illustration
[T9333] Monokeros. 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. 29r drawing page: figure pen, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T8929] Monoceros. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛΟΥ τοῦ ΦΙΛΗ στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ πρὸς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα μιχαὴλ τὸν παλαιολόγον περὶ τῆς τῶν ζώων ἰδιότητος (BAV, 1560), manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 27v drawing page: figure pen, gouache, pencil, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T8941] Monoceros. In Collection of works by Pseudo-Oppien, Xenophon and Manuel Philes (BnF, 1554), manuscript (Paris, BnF), fol. 90v drawing page: figure pen, pencil, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T41554] Unicorn (Monoceros). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 689 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T46330] Unicorn (Vnicornis, Einhorn). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXXVv printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T46108] Unicorn (Monoceros). In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 62 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T58151] Unicorn. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxv printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T19621] Onagros. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library), fol. 29r drawing page: figure pen, washes parchment: vellum book decoration: illustration
[T9331] Onagros indikos. 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. 28r drawing page: figure pen, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T8942] Onager. In Collection of works by Pseudo-Oppien, Xenophon and Manuel Philes (BnF, 1554), manuscript (Paris, BnF), fol. 91r drawing page: figure pen, pencil, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T8930] Onager. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛΟΥ τοῦ ΦΙΛΗ στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ πρὸς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα μιχαὴλ τὸν παλαιολόγον περὶ τῆς τῶν ζώων ἰδιότητος (BAV, 1560), manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 29r drawing page: figure pen, pencil, washes paper book decoration: illustration
[T64042] Marcus (I) Gheeraerts (designer attr.), Giraffe, Armadillo, Ram and Unicorn. In Animalium Quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et Artificiosissimae Delineationes, Antwerp: Eduard van Hoeswinckel (printer), 1583 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) printing: impression page: figure engraving paper
[T64040] Title Page - Man with several four-legged animals in a safety net. In Animalium Quadrupedum Omnis Generis Verae et Artificiosissimae Delineationes, Antwerp: Eduard van Hoeswinckel (printer), 1583 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: title page
[T50465] Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF) printing: impression page: figure paper book decoration: illustration
[T50465] Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF) printing: impression page: figure paper book decoration: illustration
[T50465] Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF) printing: impression page: figure paper book decoration: illustration