Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico744] Unicorn and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T39875]Quarterly Coat of Arms of the House of Wittelsbach with Lion and Unicorn as Supporters. In Theophylact Simocatta, Theophilacti scolastici Simocati ep[isto]le morales. Rurales et amatorie interpretatione latina, Nicolaus Copernicus (translator), Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), December 1509 (Cracow, BJ), fol. [1v] ◼drawingpage: figurepenpaperbook 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
[T45429]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Unicorn. In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50465]Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF), p. 9 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50465]Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF), p. 9 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50465]Unicorns. In Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des minéraux, Paris: Augustine Pillon (printer), Jean-Baptiste Loyson (printer), 1694 (Paris, BnF), p. 9 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T50464]Unicorn and Narwhal. In Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum Museorum, Oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne Aller Materialien und Specereyen, Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Zunner (printer), 1714 (Bamberg, SBB), p. 481 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T20418]Coat of arms of Abraham Krzewski. In Abraham Krzewski, Aleksander Rajecki, Serenissimo Ac Potentissimo Principi Sigismvndo III. Regi Poloniae..., Vilnius: Drukarnia Akademicka Societatis Jesu (Vilnius) (printer attr.), 1589 (Kórnik, BK PAN), fol. D2 r ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T70658]Unicorn (Vom Einhorn). In Heinrich von Hövel, Neuwer Wunderbarlicher Thiergarten ..., Frankfurt am Main: Matthäus Becker (printer), Heirs of Christian Egenolff (publisher), 1601 (Wrocław, BUWr), p. 38 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T70117]Jost Amman (printmaker), Unicorn. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. F4r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81570]Unicorn (Von dem Einhorn). In Konrad von Megenberg, Naturbuch, vonn nutz, eigenschafft, wunderwirckung unnd Gebrauch aller Geschoepff, Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff (printer), 1536 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), fol. XXIIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T76065]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Camphruch. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 113 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5120]Tabl. X (1. Orygis Cornua Duo / 2. Pyrrha souppi / 3. Capra Syrice / 4. Cervus / 5. Hinnulus ? 6. Subolonis Cornu / 7/ Subolonis Cornu Fractum). 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. 314 ◼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
[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
[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
[T32187]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Pirassoipi. 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. 768printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T4672]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Pirassoipi. In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 768 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2321]Unicorn (Monoceros). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 781 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T74881]Ferdinand Verbiest (designer), Kun yu quan tu (Full Map of the World ; simplified Chinese 坤舆全图; traditional Chinese: 坤輿全圖) (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut