Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [1193] Biotic resources: Animalia
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T16877] Maarten de Vos (designer), Crispin (I) de Passe (printmaker), Eduard van Hoeswinckel (print publisher), Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles in a border with the Dove of the Holy Ghost, starfish, shells, crabs (London, BM) ◼ printing: impression engraving paper 1580 ‑ 1583 1580‑01‑01 1583‑12‑31
[T44379] Dogs (Canis). In Ortus sanitatis, Johannes de Cuba (compiler attr.), Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach (printer), 23 June 1491 (Munich, BSB), fol. 260v ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9118] Skink. In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Vniuersae aquatilium Historiae pars altera ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1555 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 231 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T17529] American Bison. In Disegni di animali (Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria), fol. 300 ◼ drawing
[T5673] Bubalus - Ana. In Pier Candido Decembrio, De animantium naturis, manuscript (Vatican, BAV), fol. 10r ◼ drawing page: marginalia and borders tempera parchment book decoration: illustration
[T46423] Crocodile. In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Vniuersae aquatilium Historiae pars altera ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1555 (Washington, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 232 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T22727] Horse. In Pietro de' Crescenzi, O pomnożeniu i rozkrzewieniu wszelakich pożytków, Andrzej Glaber (translator attr.), Cracow: Stanisław Szarfenberger (printer), 1571 (Warsaw, BN), col. 524 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9086] Egyptian Mongoose (Ichneumon, Rat de pharaon). In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 45 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9079] Beaver. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 30 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T38781] Hans (II) Weiditz (printmaker attr.), Floral Border with Birds and Cornflowers. In Das büechlin ist genant der Gilgengart ainer yetlichen Cristeliche sel ..., Augsburg: Johann (I) Schönsperger (printer), 1520 (Munich, BSB) ◼ printing: impression page: marginalia and borders woodcut, hand colouring parchment: vellum book decoration: illustration
[T9128] Girdle-tailed lizard (Cordylus 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, Library of Congress), p. 357 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T9088] Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile. In Pierre Belon, L'histoire naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins ..., Paris: Regnault Chaudière (printer), 1551 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), fol. 50 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut, hand colouring paper book decoration: illustration
[T9088] Hippopotamus Biting Crocodile. In Pierre Belon, L'histoire naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins ..., Paris: Regnault Chaudière (printer), 1551 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), fol. 50 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut, hand colouring paper book decoration: illustration
[T38770] Hans (II) Weiditz (printmaker attr.), Floral Border with a Snail. In Das büechlin ist genant der Gilgengart ainer yetlichen Cristeliche sel ..., Augsburg: Johann (I) Schönsperger (printer), 1520 (Munich, BSB) ◼ printing: impression page: marginalia and borders woodcut, hand colouring parchment: vellum book decoration: illustration
[T6705] John Caius (draughtsman), Taurus Indicus sylvestris Plinii & Solini. A Caio ad descriptionem fictus. In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Bibliotheek), fol. 66 ◼ drawing page: figure paper book decoration: illustration 1530 ‑ 1565 1530‑01‑01 1565‑12‑31
[T5648] African buffalo (Le portraict du Boeuf d'Afrique). In Pierre Belon, Les Observations De Plvsieurs Singularitez Et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie ..., Paris: Guillaume Cavellat (printer), 1553 (Munich, BSB), fol. 120 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T4607] Cristoforo Coriolano (blockcutter), Sea cow (Vacca marina). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis Qvadrvpedvm Omniv[m] Bisvlcorv[m] historia ..., Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi (printer), Geronimo Tamburini (publisher), 1621 (Rome, BNCR), p. 54 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T18232] Egyptian Mongoose (Portraict de l'Ichneumon, que les Egyptiens nomment Rat de Pharaon). In Pierre Belon, Les Observations De Plvsieurs Singularitez Et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie ..., Paris: Guillaume Cavellat (printer), 1553 (Munich, BSB), fol. 97r ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T46424] Chameleon. In Pierre Belon, Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus Libri duo ..., Paris: Charles Estienne (printer), 1553 (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library), p. 57 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration
[T44420] Armadillo (La peincture du Tatou). In Pierre Belon, Les Observations De Plvsieurs Singularitez Et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie ..., Paris: Guillaume Cavellat (printer), 1553 (Munich, BSB), fol. 210 ◼ printing: impression page: figure woodcut paper book decoration: illustration