Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico4733] Monsters of mixed human and animal shape and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T43404]Workshop of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printmaker), Tab. LXI: Monkeys (Ceropithecus, Papio). In Jan Jonston, Historiae Natvralis De Quadrvpetibvs Libri ..., Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Matthäus Merian the Elder (printer), 1649 - 1652 (Mannheim, Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T63665]Monk Calf of Freiberg. Part of Maciej Miechowita, Chronica Polonorum, Cracow: Hieronim Wietor (printer), 1521 (Cracow, BJ) ◼printing: impressioninserted piecewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook binding or part of
[T9133]Sea Monk. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 519 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30287]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Bishop-fish (Monstrum Marinum rudomenta habitus Episcopi referens). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 358 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9117]Bishop-fish (De pisce episcopi habitu). In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 494 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9134]Bishop-fish (De pisce episcopi habitu, Rondeletius). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 520 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30286]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Sea Monk. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 28 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30289]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Monk Calf of Freiberg (Vitulomonachus Sorbini). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 371 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6828]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Monster Born in Belgium or in Cracow (Infans [Sigmòxes], cum promuscide, & capitibus animalium). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 373 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook 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
[T77599]Two monsters (Infans ore leonino and Monster of Novara). In Fortunio Liceti, De Monstrorvm Cavssis, Natvra, Et Differentiis Libri Dvo ..., Padua: Paolo Frambotto (printer), Varisco Varisco (printer), 1634 (Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute), p. 192 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2922]Monogrammist I.C.B. (blockcutter attr.), Warning Against False Prophets. In Mikołaj Rej, Swiętych słow a spraw Pańskich, ktore tu sprawował Pan ... Kroynika, albo Postilia ..., Cracow: Maciej Wirzbięta (printer), 1556 - 5 January 1557 (Cracow, BJ), fol. 164v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T74922]Sea monk. In Eyn wunderbarlicher Fisch furwar, In De[nn]marck gefangen diesses Jar., location unknown: 1546 (Munich, BSB) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, handwritingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9061]Sea Monk. 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. 536 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9062]Monk Calf of Freiberg. 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. 431 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9116]Sea Monk. In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1554 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 492 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[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
[T8967]Mantichoron. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University), fol. 26 ◼drawingpage: figurepen, pencil, washespaperbook decoration: illustration
[T11550]Onocentaur. 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. 30v ◼drawingpage: figurepen, washespaperbook decoration: illustration
[T19624]Onocentaur. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ... (Harvard, 1565), manuscript (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University), fol. 31rdrawingpage: figurepen, washesparchment: vellumbook decoration: illustration