Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T6702]John Caius (draughtsman), Hippopotamus after Pliny and Solinus, by Caius (Hippopotamus Caius ad descript. Plinii & Solini finxit). In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 65 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration1530 ‑ 15651530‑01‑011565‑12‑31
[T6708]John Caius (draughtsman), Leucrota after Pliny and Solinus, by Caius (Leucrocuta Plinii et Solini. Caius finxit). In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 67 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6707]Manticore. In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 67 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration
[T6706]John Caius (draughtsman), Tarandus after Pliny and Solinus, by Caius (Tarandus Plinii & Solini. Ad descript. a Caio effictus). In Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter (so-called Gessner Albums), vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Special Collections), fol. 66 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration1530 ‑ 15651530‑01‑011565‑12‑31
[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, Special Collections), fol. 66 ◼drawingpage: figurepaperbook decoration: illustration1530 ‑ 15651530‑01‑011565‑12‑31
[T17278]Michelangelo Buonarroti (draughtsman), Pietà for Vittoria Colonna (Boston, MS, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) ◼drawingsingle pieceblack chalkpaper1892891538 ‑ 15441538‑01‑011544‑12‑31
[T8964]Tarandos. In Manuel Philes, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ λογιωτάτου κυρίου Μανουήλου τοῦ Φιλῆ..., manuscript (Paris, BSG)drawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8935]Catoblepas. 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. 31rdrawingpage: figurepencil, washes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8928]Lion. 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. 23vdrawingpage: figurepencil, washes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T8938]Katoblepas. 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. 31r ◼drawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T58354]Battle of Mohács. In Stanisław Sarnicki, Xiegi hetmanskie, manuscript (Warsaw, AGAD), p. 354 ◼drawingpage: figurepenpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T11756]Aurochs. In Historia animalium, ex Aristotele et aliis desumpta (London, BL), fol. 140r ◼drawingpage: figurepenpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T82948]Head of elk (Paris, Musée du Louvre) ◼drawingpaper: chamois paper440280
[T68263]Brown bear. Part of Album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds (London, BM) ◼drawing1501 ‑ 16001501‑01‑011600‑12‑31
[T68264]Goat. Part of Album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds (London, BM) ◼drawingwatercolour, penpaper173160
[T8932]Cattle. 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. 33v ◼drawingpage: figurepencil, washes, penpaperbook 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. 29r ◼drawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T11550]Onocentaur. 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. 30v ◼drawingpage: figurewashes, penpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T49390]Common comfrey (roots)?. Part of Platter-Herbarium (Weiditz) (Bern, Burgerbibliothek) ◼drawing
[T60246]Joris Hoefnagel (draughtsman), Cow (Washington, DC, NGA). Part of Hoefnagel's Animalia Quadrupedia et Reptilia (Terra) (Washington, DC, NGA) ◼drawingset or complex object: piecegouache, watercolourparchment: vellum1575 ‑ 15801575‑01‑011580‑12‑31