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
[T55023]Wreath Medallion with the Coat of Arms of Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In Societas Sanctę Annę. Per Poloniam, Lithvaniam, Russiam, et alias S. Regis Poloniae ditiones instituta, Cracow: Drukarnia Łazarzowa (Łazarz Printing House) (printer), Jan Januszowski (printer), 1590 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), fol. A1v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T62859]Bończa coat of arms (as Unicorn). In Jakub Kazimierz Haur, Skład Abo Skarbiec Znakomitych Sekretow Oekonomiey Ziemianskiey ..., Cracow: Mikołaj Aleksander Schedel (printer), 1693 (Warsaw, BN), p. 323 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5496]Joris Hoefnagel (draughtsman), Hare, Horned Hare, Rabbit, and Spotted Squirrel (Washington, DC, NGA). Part of Hoefnagel's Animalia Quadrupedia et Reptilia (Terra) (Washington, DC, NGA) ◼drawingset or complex object: piecewatercolour, gouacheparchment: vellum1841431575 ‑ 15801575‑01‑011580‑12‑31
[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, DC, Library of Congress), fol. 41r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T1601]Title-page Border with Assunta. In Hortulus animae, Cracow: Maciej Szarfenberg (printer), 1533 (Kórnik, BK PAN), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and borderswoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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. A1rprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration320450
[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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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: impressionpage: marginalia and borderspaperbook decoration: title page