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
[T16935] Robert Walton (print publisher), A Booke of all Kinds of BEASTS, in their severall Shapes, Postures, and Proportions, being the third Part of the View of Creation. This, as also all other Parts, are Printed & Sold By Robert Walton, at the Globe & Compasses, near the Great North Door of St. Pauls Church (London, BM) ◼ printing: impression single piece engraving paper book decoration: title page 272 174 1660 ‑ 1670 1660‑01‑01 1670‑12‑31
[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, washes, pencil, gouache 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, washes, pencil 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, washes, pencil 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, washes, pencil 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
[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
[T9052] Figure du Camphur (unicorn). 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. 20v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration