Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico744] Unicorn
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T76065] Camphruch. In Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 113 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T58581] Animals (De fertilitate ueteris Germaniae). In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 284 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T75321] Hieronymus Kösler (goldsmith), Back cover - Creation of Eve, Warning of Adam and Eve, Expulsion from Paradise, and Labour of Adam and Eve (Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka). Part of Silver binding. Part of Fol. 2 from the Silver Library of Duke Albert of Prussia (Toruń, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka) ◼ crafts set or complex object: bound volume: codex: covers or a part of casting, gilding metal: silver book binding or part of 1554 ‑ 1562 1554‑01‑01 1562‑12‑31
[T45192] Unicorn caught by a virgin (Unicornus). In Ortus sanitatis, Johannes de Cuba (compiler attr.), Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach (printer), 23 June 1491 (Munich, BSB), fol. 296v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T32187] Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Pirassoipi. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] Historia ..., Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni (printer), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1641 - 1642 (Augsburg, SSB), p. 768 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T4672] Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Pirassoipi. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 768 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T2321] Unicorn (Monoceros). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle, ULB), p. 781 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T74881] Ferdinand Verbiest (designer), Kun yu quan tu (Full Map of the World ; simplified Chinese 坤舆全图; traditional Chinese: 坤輿全圖) (Washington, Library of Congress) ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut
[T74706] Coat of Arms of Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In Fulvio Androzzi, Scieszka poboznego chrześcianina to iest nauki y przestrogi co potrzebnieysze na poratowanie wszytkich zbawienia pragnących, Stanisław Grochowski (translator), Cracow: Jakub Siebeneicher (printer), 1600 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A1v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T74703] Coat of Arms of Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In Antonin of Przemyśl, Rosarivm seu libellvs, in qvo s. rosarii fraternitatis b. Mariae Virginis nuncuptae, rationes, progressus, mysteria et commoda breuiter explicantur, Cracow: Jakub Siebeneicher (printer), 1591, fol. A1v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T74699] Coat of Arms of Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In Fulvio Androzzi, Scieszka Pobożnego Chrześcijanina, To iest, Nauki y Przestrogi co potrzebnieysze na poratowanie wszystkich zbawienia pragnąncych, Stanisław Grochowski (translator), Cracow: Jakub Siebeneicher (printer), 1601 (Wrocław, Oss.), fol. A1v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T45429] Unicorn. In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. A1r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T72601] Unicorn dragon (Dracunculus Monoceros Illustriss. Card. Barberini). In Johann Faber, Ioannis Fabri Lyncei Bambergensis ... Animalia Mexicana ..., Rome: Giacomo Mascardi (printer), 1628 (London, BL), p. 816 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T57433] Unicorn under a Date Palm (Dactelbaum, Palma). In Hieronymus Bock, Kreuter Bůch ..., Strasbourg: Wendelin Rihel (printer), 1546 (Vienna, ÖNB), fol. XLIIIIr ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T69776] Unicorn II. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. G1r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T70117] Unicorn. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. F4r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T70658] Unicorn (Vom Einhorn). In Heinrich von Hövel, Neuwer Wunderbarlicher Thiergarten ..., Frankfurt am Main: Matthäus Becker (printer), Heirs of Christian Egenolff (publisher), 1601 (Wrocław, BUWr), p. 38 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T4518] Tabl. XI (Onager Aldro[vandi] / Monoceros seu Unicornu Iubatus / Monoceros seu Unicornu aliud). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (ii) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T4517] Tabl. X (Monoceros / Capricornus Marinus / Monoceros). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Naturalis De Quadrupedibus Libri. Cum aeneis figuris ..., Amsterdam: Jan Janszoon Schipper (printer), 1657 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (i) ◼ printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T72172] Casimiria (Wrocław, Oss.) ◼ printing: impression single piece: broadside woodcut, black letterpress paper