![(Top) unlabeled, assumed to be a manticore. (Bottom) "leucrocotta" (or "leucrocuta", "leucurcuta",[1] etc.). Note also that these two beasts appear on the same page in Johannes Johnston's Historiae Naturalis[1] (cf. uploaded manticore and leucrotta images from it) Part of a collection of original drawings amassed by Gessner (some of which he used for his woodcuts in Historiae animalium and other works); the loose sheets were annotated and collated into "albums" by Felix Platter.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Animal_drawings_collected_by_Felix_Platter%2C_p2_-_%2845%29.jpg)
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(Top) unlabeled, assumed to be a manticore. (Bottom) "leucrocotta" (or "leucrocuta", "leucurcuta",[1] etc.).
Note also that these two beasts appear on the same page in Johannes Johnston's Historiae Naturalis[1] (cf. uploaded manticore and leucrotta images from it) |
| Date | between 1546 and 1558 |
| Source | Bijzondere collectie Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Author | Unknown author |
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- ↑ a b Enenkel, Karl A. E. (2014) "Chaper 2: The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology" in Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education, BRILL, pp. 68–70, Fig. 2.4 ISBN: 9789004279179.
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