Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico753] Mis-shapen animals; monsters and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[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
[T22196]Four-horned Reindeer (Rangifer). In Gart der gesundheit Zu latein Hortvs Sanitatis ..., Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Strasbourg: Matthias Apiarius (printer), 1536 (Munich, BSB), fol. XXXVIII ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45114]Three-horned Reindeer and Weasel (Rangifer et rosurella). In Ortus sanitatis, Johannes de Cuba (compiler attr.), Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach (printer), 23 June 1491 (Munich, BSB), fol. 288v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T75366]Two Reindeer. In Gaius Plinius Secundus, Caij Plinij Secundi, Des fürtrefflichen Hochgelehrten Alten Philosophi, Bücher vnd Schrifften, von der Natur, Johann Heyden (translator), Frankfurt am Main: Sigmund Feyerabend (printer), 1565 (Munich, BSB), p. 109 ◼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
[T32168]Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Two-Headed Calf. 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. 130 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30288]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Tiber River Monster (Monstrum Capite Asinino). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Monstrorvm Historia cvm Paralipomenis Historiae omnivm animalivm, Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), 1642 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 368 ◼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
[T9072]Rhinoceros. In Ambroise Paré, Les Oevvres de M. Ambroise Paré Conseiller, Et Premier Chirvrgien Dv Roy ..., Paris: Gabriel Buon (printer), 1575 (Mons, Bibliothèque centrale (UMONS)), p. 849 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T1853]Abraham de Bruyn (printmaker), Rhinoceros, horned hare and three elephants (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T1853]Abraham de Bruyn (printmaker), Rhinoceros, horned hare and three elephants (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T22045]Rhinoceros (Rinocerus). In Viellerley wu[n]derbarlicher Thier des Erdtrichs Mehrs vnd des Luffts allen anfahenden Malern vnd Goldtschmieden nuetzlich Sampt andern Kuenstnern, Frankfurt am Main: Cyriacus Jacob (printer), 1546 (Munich, BSB), fol. D3r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T17070]Martin Waldseemüller (designer), Carta marina (Washington, DC, Library of Congress) ◼printing: impressionwoodcutpapermap15161516‑01‑011516‑12‑31
[T5828]Heinrich (I) Vogtherr (printmaker attr.), Rhinoceros. In Michael Herr, Gründtlicher vnderricht warhaffte vnd eygentliche beschreibung ... aller vierfüssigen thier ..., Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck (printer), 1546 (Berlin, SBB), fol. lxi ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T20628]Catharina Sperling (printmaker), Hares. In Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, Kupfer-Bibel, In welcher Die Physica Sacra ..., Augsburg, Ulm: Christian Ulrich Wagner (printer), Johann Andreas Pfeffel (publisher), 1731 - 1735 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), tab. CCXXXVI ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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: front matter
[T76480]Carta marina et descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum... (nine sheets; facsimile) (Minneapolis, MN, James Ford Bell Library) ◼printing: impressionfacsimilepapermap19491949‑01‑011949‑12‑31
[T5121]Tabl. XI (1. Cervus Palmatus / 2. Tragelapus / 3. Tarandus / 4. Rangifer / 5. Alce / 6. Alce foemina / 7. Rhinoceros). 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. 354 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook 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