Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico744] Unicorn
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[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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T69776]Unicorn II. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. G1r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (ii) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), after p. 36 (i) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T72172]Casimiria (Wrocław, Oss.) ◼printing: impressionsingle piece: broadsidewoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[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: impressionsingle pieceengravingpaperbook decoration: title page2721741660 ‑ 16701660‑01‑011670‑12‑31
[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) ◼craftsset or complex object: piecetextile: silk322039301550 ‑ 15601550‑01‑011560‑12‑31
[T19620]Monokeros. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library), fol. 28rdrawingpage: figurepen, washesparchment: vellumbook decoration: illustration
[T5724]Onager. In Pier Candido Decembrio, De animantium naturis, manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 45v ◼drawingpage: marginalia and borderstemperaparchmentbook 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 ◼drawingpage: figurepen, washespaperbook 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. 27vdrawingpage: figurepen, gouache, pencil, washespaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8941]Monoceros. In Collection of works by Pseudo-Oppien, Xenophon and Manuel Philes (BnF, 1554), manuscript (Paris, BnF), fol. 90v ◼drawingpage: figurepen, pencil, washespaperbook 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, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 689 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58151]Unicorn. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dcxv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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 ◼drawingpage: figurepen, washesparchment: vellumbook 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 ◼drawingpage: figurepen, washespaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8942]Onager. In Collection of works by Pseudo-Oppien, Xenophon and Manuel Philes (BnF, 1554), manuscript (Paris, BnF), fol. 91r ◼drawingpage: figurepen, pencil, washespaperbook decoration: illustration