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
[T4382]Coat of arms of Henry of Valois as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. In Blaise de Vigenère, La Description Dv Royavme de Poloigne ..., Paris: Jean (I) Richer (printer), 1573 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), fol. A1 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: title page
[T4376]Blaise de Vigenère, La Description Dv Royavme de Poloigne ..., Paris: Jean (I) Richer (printer), 1573 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart)printing: early printed bookset or complex object: bound volume: codexwoodcut, black letterpresspaper
[T41313]Sea sturgeon (Jesiotr, Aquipenser vel Sturio, Styr). In Herbarz to iest, Zioł tutecznych, postronnych, y Zamorskich opisanie..., Marcin Siennik (compiler), Cracow: Mikołaj Szarfenberger (printer), 1568 (Warsaw, BN), fol. 305 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T38900]Beluga sturgeon (Erox). In O ziolach y o moczy gich : O paleniu wodek z ziol ; O Oleykoch przyprawianiu ..., Stefan Falimirz (translator), Cracow: Florian Ungler (printer), 24 December 1534 (Warsaw, BN), fol. 34v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T32491]Sea sturgeon (Ezox, Jesiotr). In Hieronim Spiczyński ( attr.), [O Ziolach tutecznych y zamorskich y o mocy ich ...], Cracow: Helena Unglerowa (printer), 1542 (Warsaw, BN), fol. 155r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T67124]Sea sturgeon (Ezox, Jesiotr). In Hieronim Spiczyński ( attr.), O Ziolach tutecznych y zamorskich y o mocy ich ..., Cracow: Heirs of Marek Szarfenberg (printer), 1556 (Warsaw, BN), fol. 155r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T38901]Sea sturgeon (Ezox, Jesiotr). In O ziolach y o moczy gich : O paleniu wodek z ziol ; O Oleykoch przyprawianiu ..., Stefan Falimirz (translator), Cracow: Florian Ungler (printer), 24 December 1534 (Warsaw, BN), fol. 35r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81204]Wels Catfish? (De Exosse pisce, et de Ichtyocolla, 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, DC, Library of Congress), p. 57 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81188]Wels Catfish? ('On Boneless Fish and Isinglass' - De Exosse pisce & de Ichthyocolla). In Gvlielmi Rondeletii ... Vniuersae aquatilium Historiae pars altera ..., Lyon: Macé Bonhomme (printer), 1555 (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Libraries), p. 177 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T40473]Orpine (Laurea drusz wortz). In Gart der Gesundheit, Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Mainz: Peter Schöffer (printer), before 28 March 1485 (Munich, BSB), fol. 195v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T40362]Autumn crocus (Hermodactilus, zytloisz). In Gart der Gesundheit, Johannes de Cuba (compiler), Mainz: Peter Schöffer (printer), before 28 March 1485 (Munich, BSB), fol. 176v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2312]Porcupine (Hystrix). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 632 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T49435]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber). In Pedanius Dioscorides, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Petri Andreae Matthioli medici Senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore (var. B), Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi (printer), 1554 (Vienna, ÖNB), p. 176 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcut, hand colouringpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T9079]Eurasian 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: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T51031]Cristoforo Coriolano (printmaker), Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vlyssis Aldrovandi Patricii Bononiensis De Qvadrvpedib[us] Digitatis Viviparis Libri Tres ..., Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini (printer), Bartolomeo Ambrosini (publisher), Marco Antonio Bernia (publisher), 1645 (Warsaw, BN), p. 279 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T41523]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). 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. 309 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T44971]Eurasian Beaver (Fiber, Biber). In Conrad Gessner, Thierbüch: Das ist ein kurtze bschreybung aller vierfüssigen Thieren ..., Conrad Forer (translator), Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1563 (Zürich, ZB), fol. XXIIr ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T46213]Eurasian Beaver. In Conrad Gessner, Icones Animalivm Qvadrvpedvm Viviparorvm Et Oviparorvm ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1560 (Zürich, ETH-Bibliothek), p. 84 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T2302]Eurasian Beaver (Castor). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Lib[er] I de Quadrupedibus uiuiparis ..., Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1551 (Halle (Saale), ULB), p. 336 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T81205]Beluga sturgeon (Alterum corrolarium de husone, ut Germani appellant, docti plerique antaceum interpretantur). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 59 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration