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
[T41527]Rhinoceros. In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri Medici Tigvrini Historiae Animalivm Liber Primvs De quadrupedibus viuiparis... Editio secunda ..., Frankfurt am Main: Robert Cambier (printer), 1602 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 843 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5546]Rhinoceros. In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. CXXXIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46106]Rhinoceros. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 60 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T56380]Wreath Medallion with the Coat of Arms of Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Adiunctum testamenti illustrisimi et reverendisimi in Christo patris et domino, d. Joannis Demetrii Solikowski, Cracow: Jakub Siebeneicher (printer), 1603 (Kórnik, BK PAN) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[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, BUŁ), 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: front matter
[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: end matter
[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: front matter
[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: front matter
[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: front matter
[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