Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico744] Unicorn and narrower iconographies
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T53210]Title-page of Computus nouus totius fere Astronomie. In Piotr Gaszowiec, Computus nouus totius fere Astronomie fundame[n]tum pulcerrimum contine[n]s, Cracow: Kaspar Hochfeder (printer), 1504 (Cracow, BJ)printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, handwritingpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T16935]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: impressionengravingpaperbook decoration: front matter272174
[T39863]Coats of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cracow. In Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków, Questiones veteris ac noue logice. Cum resolutione textus Aristotelis clarissima, ad intentionem doctoris Scoti, Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 23 August 1508 (Cracow, BJ)printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, penpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T53216]Coats of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cracow. In Francesco Filelfo, Fra[n]cisci Philelphi breviores elega[n]tioresque Ep[isto]le o[mn]ib[us] q[ui] pure et latine scribere cupuint muleu utiles et necessarie, Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 1513 (Lublin, KUL, BU KUL)printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T53256]Coats of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cracow. In Eutropius, Eutropij Dece libri historiaru ita candide scripti vt quisq rudimenta historie Romane nancisci volens atq seriem multaru gestaru reru..., Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 24 February 1510printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T39873]Coats of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cracow. 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)printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T8894]Coats of Arms of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cracow. In Michał Falkener, Introductoriu[m] dyalectice q[u]o[d] Congestu[m] Logicu[m] appellatur, Cracow: Jan Haller (printer), 1 January 1509 - 12 December 1509 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A1printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T8929]Monoceros. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛΟΥ τοῦ ΦΙΛΗ στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ πρὸς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα μιχαὴλ τὸν παλαιολόγον περὶ τῆς τῶν ζώων ἰδιότητος (BAV, 1560), manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 27vdrawingpage: figuregouache, pencil, washes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9024]Syrian Dog of the Island of Rats (Plan de l'Isle des Rats, & de la beste nommé par l'Autheur, Chien surien). In La cosmographie vniuerselle (2), Paris: Pierre L'Huillier (printer), 1575, fol. 967printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration120100
[T5128]Plan of Noah's Ark. In Athanasius Kircher, Athanasii Kircheri ... Arca Noë: In Tres Libros Digesta, Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (printer), 1675 (Warsaw, BN), after p. 108printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T26486]Bończa Coat of Arms. In Marcin Bielski, Kronika Polska Marcina Bielskiego Nowo przez Joachima Bielskiego syna iego wydana, Joachim Bielski (compiler), Cracow: Jakub Siebeneicher (printer), 1597 (Cracow, BJ), p. 77printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6703]John Caius (draughtsman), Monoceros after Pliny and Solinus, by Caius (Monoceros. Ex descript. Plinii et Solini a Caio fictus). In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 65drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration1530 ‑ 15651530‑01‑011565‑12‑31
[T85645]Caprea seu dorcas monoceros. In Ole Worm, Museum Wormianum, Leiden: Officina Elzeviriana (printer), 1655, p. 340printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T69776]Unicorn II. In Georg Schaller, Ein neuw Thierbuch ..., Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1569 (Munich, BSB), fol. G1rprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T87655]Title-page Border. In Symbolorvm & Emblematvm Animalibvs Qvadrvpedibvs ... Centuria Altera ..., Nuremberg: 1595 (Munich, BSB)printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersengravingpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T72601]Unicorn dragon (Dracunculus Monoceros Illustriss. Card. Barberini). In Johann Faber, Ioannis Fabri Lyncei Bambergensis ... Animalia Mexicana ..., Rome: Giacomo Mascardi (printer), 1628 (London, BL), p. 816printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9333]Monokeros. 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. 29rdrawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9331]Onagros indikos. 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. 28rdrawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8930]Onager. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛΟΥ τοῦ ΦΙΛΗ στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ πρὸς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα μιχαὴλ τὸν παλαιολόγον περὶ τῆς τῶν ζώων ἰδιότητος (BAV, 1560), manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 29rdrawingpage: figurepencil, washes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[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. A1vprinting: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration