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[Illustrations in Codex Seraphinianus]

Description: Photographs of illustrations from a book titled "Codex Seraphinianus" held by UNT Special Collections. Image 1 depicts a scene where alien-like figures, with yellow and white mottled heads in the shape of a football on a column, are pulling human skin onto a skeleton lying down on a bed. There are books piled and arranged under the mattress to hold it up. There are more skeletons waiting their turn and some newly made humans looking at themselves in mirrors. There are hooks along the back with … more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Illustration in "The Elizabethan Zoo"]

Description: Photographs of illustrations in "The Elizabethan Zoo: A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic" held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is of a creature with the head of a human, breasts, scales, paws, hooves, and a tail that is called a Lamia. The second image's central focus is a tapered passage about the "Mantichora", or manticore, including different names and descriptions for the creature. The face of the illustration is visible on the other page. Image 3, is of a manticore, s… more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Rhino page in "The Elizabethan Zoo"]

Description: Photograph of an illustration and passage in "The Elizabethan Zoo: A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic" held by UNT Special Collections. The drawing is of a rhinoceros with added details. There are layers of 'armor' on it that does not resemble the way a rhino truly looks, though the form as a whole is accurate to the rhino. Beneath that is a portion of a passage about Edward Topsell's findings on the rhinoceros.
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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