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
[T1853]Abraham de Bruyn (printmaker), Rhinoceros, horned hare and three elephants (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T22045]Rhinoceros (Rinocerus). In Viellerley wu[n]derbarlicher Thier des Erdtrichs Mehrs vnd des Luffts allen anfahenden Malern vnd Goldtschmieden nuetzlich Sampt andern Kuenstnern, Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1546 (Munich, BSB), fol. D3r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T17070]Martin Waldseemüller (designer), Carta marina (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionwoodcutpapermap15161516‑01‑011516‑12‑31
[T5828]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Rhinoceros. In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. lxi ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T79731]Ludwig August Mellin (designer attr.), Johann Nussbiegel (printmaker), Hare's horns (Lepus timidus Linn. cornu). In Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (Tafelband 2), Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther (printer), 1844, Pl. CCXXXIII B. ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T20628]Catharina Sperling (printmaker), Hares. In Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, Kupfer-Bibel, In welcher Die Physica Sacra ..., Augsburg, Ulm: Christian Ulrich Wagner (printer), Johann Andreas Pfeffel (publisher), 1731 - 1735 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), tab. CCXXXVI ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T78248]Joachim (I) von Sandrart (printmaker), Frontispiece to Physica Curiosa. In Kaspar Schott, P. Gasparis Schotti Regis Curiani ... Physica Curiosa ..., Würzburg: Johann Jobst Hertz (printer), Wolfgang Moritz Endter and Johann Andreas Endter, sons (publisher), 1662 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB) ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersengravingpaperbook decoration: title page
[T76063]Willem Janszoon Blaeu (designer), Map of Africa. In Geographica Et Hydrographica Nova Africae Descriptio, Amsterdam: Hendrik (I) Hondius (printer), 1624 (Weimar, HAAB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5121]Tabl. XI (1. Cervus Palmatus / 2. Tragelapus / 3. Tarandus / 4. Rangifer / 5. Alce / 6. Alce foemina / 7. Rhinoceros). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 354 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5117]Tabl. VII (1. Aries Cretensis Striptocerus / 2. Aries sine Cornibus & cauda / 3. Aries Reflexis & conVolutis cornibus / 4. Ouis Insulce Madagascar / 5. Agnus natus duobus Capitibus et quinque pedibus / 6. Agnus Capite Suillo / 7. Agnus pedibus Equinis & capite Simice / 8. Agnus Triceps / 9. Agnus Niger dorso duplici conjuncto pedibus octo). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 189 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5116]Tabl. VI (2. Aries Tricornis / 1. Aeies Sexcornis / 4. Aries Hirsutus / 3. Ventres Agni Aperti / 7. Aries Indicus / 5. Aries Hirsutus Capite & pedibus nigris). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 164 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5113]Tabl. III (1. Vitulus Biceps duplici facie / 2. Vitulus duobus Tandum posterioribus pedibus / 3. Bosin Cervice Cornu gerens / 4. Vitulus quodam modo Bicorporeus / 5. Monstrum Bicorporeum erectum quinque auribus / 6. Vitulus agnina facie / 7. Bos cruribus brevibus instar nani / 8. Caput bovis Antiquissimum Romae usitatum / 9. Bos bicornis. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 56 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5112]Tab. II (1. Vitulus Biceps Saturoe natus / 2. Tauri Caput in Alsatia Visum / 3. Vituli Biceps Mediolani natus / 4. Caput Vituli geminum / 5. Aliud Caput geminum / 6. Vitulus Oculis naribus & auribus humanis / 7. Vitulus Septibes / 8. Bos quinque pedibus Basileoe Rauracorum A.D. 1551 Visus / 9. Vitulus sextipes). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Ulyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis, Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia ..., Frankfurt am Main: Caspar Rotelius (printer), Johann David Zunner (publisher), 1647 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 54 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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) ◼craftsset or complex object: bound volume: codex: covers or a part ofgilding, castingmetal: silverbook binding or part of1554 ‑ 15621554‑01‑011562‑12‑31
[T50680]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Chimera (Icon Chimaerae). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 56 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaper
[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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50671]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Monstrum leoninum (Icon quadrupedis, reticulato corpore, sub nomine Monstri leonini communicata, cum tamen cynocephali potius quam leonis faciem praeseferat). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 55 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9059]Monstrum leoninum (Figure d'un lion marin couvert descailles). In Ambroise Paré, Deux Livres De Chirvrgie, I. De la generatio[n] de l’homme... 2. Des monstres tant terrestres que marins ..., Paris: André Wechel (printer), 1573 (Paris, Bibliothèques d'Université Paris Cité - Bibliothèque numérique Medica), p. 542 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration