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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
32349
Record number:
32349-3
JCB call number:
J550 M948c / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Portentosum animal]
Place image published:
[Basel]
Image publisher:
[Heinrich Petri]
Image date:
[1550]
Image function:
illustration; book 5, p. 1108
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
6.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.5 cm
Page dimension height:
30.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Animal, perhaps an opposum, nursing its young.
Source creator:
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Source Title:
[Cosmographia. Latin] Cosmographiae uniuersalis lib. VI. in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur ...
Source place of publication:
Basileæ [Basel]
Source publisher:
apud Henrichum Petri
Source date:
M.D.L. [1550]
notes:
Text describes a New World animal which has a front like a fox, back feet like a monkey, and who carries its babies in a pouch in its stomach. Münster's Cosmography was one of the most influential geographical works of the sixteenth century and was published and revised in a number of editions over a half century. Image tile from marginal gloss.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1958.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history

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