Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico753] Mis-shapen animals; monsters
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T4654]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Agnus bicorporis. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 460printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5608]Philips Galle (printmaker), Rhinoceros Abada. In Tavole acquarellate, vol. 6 (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna). Part of Drawings collected by Ulisse Aldrovandi's (so-called Tavole acquarellate) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna), fol. 63 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengraving, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5793]Unicorn (Monoceros). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. F4v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9050]Rhinoceros. 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. 24r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8329]Coat of arms of Chełmno Land. In Chronica, Kurtzer Auszzug der Preussischen Chronicken ..., Königsberg: Hans Daubmann (printer), 1566 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A3v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6645]Horned hare skull. In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Bibliotheek), fol. 30 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4641]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Aries tricornis. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 397printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8898]Coats of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Poland and Cracow. In Michał Falkener, Introductoriu[m] dyalectice q[u]o[d] Congestu[m] Logicum appellat[ur] ..., Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 1 January 1515 - 24 January 1515 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A1 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: title page
[T32188]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Bos nanus. 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. 138printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9030]Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In André Thevet, Les singularitez De La France Antarctiqve, Avtrement nommée Amerique ..., Paris: Heirs of Maurice de La Porte (printer), 1558 (Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library), fol. 41 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6786]The Tiber Monster reputedly washed up by a flood in 1496. In Conrad Lykosthenes, Wunderwerck Oder Gottes vnergründtliches vorbilden ..., Johannes Herold (translator), Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1557 (Munich, BSB), p. cccclx ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6546]One-eyed monster born in Prussia in 1594. In Kaspar Henneberger, Ercleru[n]g der Preussischen grössern Landtaffel oder Mappen ..., Königsberg: Georg Osterberger (printer), 1595 (Munich, BSB), p. 242 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5816]Unicorn (Unicornis ein Einhorn). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. H3 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45449]Harpy (Arpia). In Albertus Magnus, Thierbuch Alberti Magni ..., Walther Hermann Ryff (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1545 (Munich, BSB), fol. J3v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4692]Albrecht Altdorfer (draughtsman), An angel, a candelabrum with flowers and a rhinoceros. In Oratio ad suu[m] p[ro]priu[m] angelu[m] [part two], Augsburg: Johann (I) Schönsperger (printer), 1513 - 1514 (Besançon, Bibliothèques municipales de Besançon), fol. 33 ◼drawingpage: marginalia and borderspenparchmentbook decoration: illustration1513 ‑ 15151513‑01‑011515‑12‑31
[T32230]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Vitulus biceps. 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. 131printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T32182]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Vituli gemini. 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. 131printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6094]Vitulus Russus perfectus and Vitulus captite agnino pedibus senis quorum duo in dorso sunt collocati. In Tavole acquarellate, vol. 2 (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna). Part of Drawings collected by Ulisse Aldrovandi's (so-called Tavole acquarellate) (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna)drawingpage: figurewatercolourpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5469]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Equus prodigiosus. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs ..., Bologna: Vittorio Benacci (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1616 (Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), p. 130 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4608]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Monstrous bovine foetus. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 72 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration