Sea Monk

Français : Illustration du De aquatilibus libri duo de Bellon du Mans. Edition de 1553

Drawing collected by Felix Platter, to be used in Historiae animalium. The first volume contained drawings of fish, shellfish, crabs and other creatures of the sea. The drawings were made by several artists, m More

Illustration from Recueil de la diuersité des habits, qui sont de present en vsage, tant es pays d’Europe, Asie, Affrique & isles sauuages, Paris: 1564. Printed and presumably illustrated by Richard Breton, te More

Monstre marin en habit de Moine Subject: Sea monsters Tag: People

Français : Monstre marin. Monstrorum historia d'Ulisse Androvandi, p. 28

Français : Codex canadensis, p. 55 Monstre marin tue par les françois sur La riviere / de richelieu En nouvelle france 1—2 mouche luisante / quon voit a / miliers sur le soir dun beau / jour sur les rives / du More

The illustration on the left is by professor Guillaume Rondelet, and on the right by naturalist Pierre Belon, both from the 16th century. At center is an illustration of a squid caught in 1854. "Could we, give More

Conr. Gesneri Tigurini medicinæ et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiæ animalium liber II : qui est de quadrupedibus ouiparis.

De Hominib. mai\ Lib. IV. 439 Humanafacieeilevidebatur, fed ruftica&a- B grefti, capite rafo & Iseua , bumeros contegebat velurimonachoriimnoftrorumcucullus. Pin- nas duas longas pro brachijs habebat. Pars More

CURIOUS CREATURES. 229 events, very wide credence, even if they never existed, for Sluper, whom I have before quoted, gives, in his curious little book, two pictures of these two fishes (more awful than Ge More

Gulielmi Rondeletii doctoris Medici et medicinae ... Libri de piscibus marinis : in quibus veræ piscium effigies expressae sunt : quæ in tota piscium historia continentur, indicat elenchus pagina nona et decima More

P. Gasparis Schotti, regis curtani ... Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa : quibus pleraq[ue], quæ de angelis, dæmonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumenis, monstris, porten More

Buchseite aus Konrad Gesner: Fischbuch, Der zwölffte theil von de Meertheire. So begreifft allerley grosse Wallfisch, Meerwunder und Schiltkrotten, S. 105 v (Abb. Meermünch und Meerbischoff)

The woodcut shows a rock in shape of a monk’s frock which is situated in the sea south of the main part of the Faeroe Islands. The Sea Monk (in Danish “Munken”) has a safe harbour. To the right we see a wrecked More

Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, France ca. 1290 Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustrations from 1669 of the "sea monk" and "sea bishop", based on original woodcuts from 1558. These creatures were possibly based on specimens of giant squid (Architeuthis dux) or angelsharks (Squatina squa More

Illustration from 1669 of the "sea monk", based on an original woodcut from 1558. This creature was possibly based on a specimen of giant squid (Architeuthis dux) or angelshark (Squatina squatina). Woodcut from More

Illustrations from 1669 of the "sea monk" and "sea bishop", based on original woodcuts from 1558. These creatures were possibly based on specimens of giant squid (Architeuthis dux) or angelsharks (Squatina squa More

Identifier: pgasparisschotti00scho (find matches) Title: P. Gasparis Schotti, regis curtani ... Physica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia naturæ et artis libris XII. comprehensa : quibus pleraq(ue), quæ de angelis, dæ More