Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [Ico753] Mis-shapen animals; monsters
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T62860] Two quadrupers (as Rhinoceros). In Jakub Kazimierz Haur, Skład Abo Skarbiec Znakomitych Sekretow Oekonomiey Ziemianskiey ..., Cracow: Mikołaj Aleksander Schedel (printer), 1693 (Warsaw, BN), p. 323 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T60027] Temptation and Fall. In Sacra Biblia, Das ist Die gantze H. Schrifft Alten und Newen Testaments ..., Kaspar Ulenberg (translator), Cologne: Johann Krebs (printer), 1630 (Łódź, Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego), fol. IIv printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T5496] Joris Hoefnagel (draughtsman), Hare, Horned Hare, Rabbit, and Spotted Squirrel (Washington, NGA). Part of Hoefnagel's Animalia Quadrupedia et Reptilia (Terra) (Washington, NGA) drawing set or complex object: piece gouache, watercolour parchment: vellum 184 143 1575 ‑ 1580 1575‑01‑01 1580‑12‑31
[T58210] Fight between a Rhinoceros and an Elephant. In André Thevet, Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique ..., Paris: Heirs of Maurice de La Porte (printer), 1557 (Washington, Library of Congress), fol. 41r printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T1601] Title-page Border with Assunta. In Hortulus animae, Cracow: Maciej Szarfenberg (printer), 1533 (Kórnik, BK PAN), fol. A1r printing: impression page: marginalia and borders hand colouring, woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T27782] Two-Headed Luther. In Johann Cochlaeus, Dialogvs De Bello Contra Turcas in Antilogias Lutheri ..., Leipzig: Valentin Schumann (printer), 1529 (Bydgoszcz, Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Bydgoszczy) printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: colophon
[T27780] [wanting: Two-Headed Luther (Lutherus Biceps)]. In Johann Cochlaeus, Dialogvs De Bello Contra Turcas in Antilogias Lutheri ..., Leipzig: Valentin Schumann (printer), 1529 (Bydgoszcz, Wojewódzka i Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Bydgoszczy), fol. A1r printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T27778] [Wanting: Two-Headed Luther]. In Johann Cochlaeus, Dialogvs De Bello Contra Turcas in Antilogias Lutheri ..., Leipzig: Valentin Schumann (printer), 1529 (Munich, BSB) printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T27776] Two-Headed Luther (Lutherus Biceps). In Johann Cochlaeus, Dialogvs De Bello Contra Turcas in Antilogias Lutheri ..., Leipzig: Valentin Schumann (printer), 1529 (Munich, BSB), fol. A1r printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T56575] Johann Theodor de Bry (printmaker), Calf with seven legs and two dog heads and the Monk Calf of Freiberg. In Johann Georg Schenk von Grafenberg, Monstrorvm Historia Memorabilis ..., Frankfurt am Main: Matthäus Becker (printer), 1609 (Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute), p. 109 printing: impression page: figure engraving paper book decoration: illustration
[T23906] Monstrous pig of Landser. In Conrad Lykosthenes, Wunderwerck Oder Gottes vnergründtliches vorbilden ..., Johannes Herold (translator), Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1557 (Munich, BSB), p. cccclx printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T6718] Two-headed child born in Pobethen in 1581. In Joachim Cimdarsus, Elegia De Pvero Bifronte Qvi In Pago Poweten ... natus est ..., Königsberg: Georg Osterberger (printer), 15 April 1581 - 31 December 1581 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB) printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T55701] Two-headed child born in Pobethen in 1581. In Neüwe Zeittung. Von einer Warhefftigen, doch erschrecklichen vnd nit bald erhörten Misgeburt, Welche geschehen ist von eines Hirtē weibe, in Preussen drey Meilen von Königsperg, Boweten genant, etc, Strasbourg: Thiebold Berger (printer), 1581 (London, BL), fol. A1r printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T6807] Two-headed child born in Pobethen in 1581. In Von einer Warhafftigen doch erschrecklichen vnd nicht bald erhoerten Misgeburt, Königsberg: Georg Osterberger (printer attr.), 1581 (Nuremberg, GNM) printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration 320 450
[T6568] Two-headed child born in Pobethen in 1581. In Kaspar Henneberger, Ercleru[n]g der Preussischen grössern Landtaffel oder Mappen ..., Königsberg: Georg Osterberger (printer), 1595 (Munich, BSB), p. 351 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T54670] Title-page of De ente et essentia. In Thomas Aquinas, Thomas de ente et essentia vna cu[m] tractatulo suo in calce annexo De natura accidentis, Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 1506 (Warsaw, BN), fol. [air] printing: impression page: figure hand colouring, woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T6307] Coats of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kingdom of Poland and Cracow. In Michał Falkener, Congestum logicum, Cracow: Kaspar Hochfeder (printer), Jan Haller (printer), 23 February 1504 (Wrocław, Oss.), fol. A1 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: title page
[T53925] Title-page Border with Quadrupeds. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs Volumen Integrum ..., Frankfurt am Main: Johann Hofer (printer), 1623 (Freiburg im Breisgau, UB), fol. A1r printing: impression page: marginalia and borders paper book decoration: title page
[T22092] Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Unicornu Ducis Mantuae. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs ..., Bologna: Vittorio Benacci (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1616 (Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), p. 415 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper
[T5475] Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Unicornu Sigismundi Regis Poloniae. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedibvs Solidipedibvs ..., Bologna: Vittorio Benacci (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1616 (Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), p. 415 printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration