Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter, p2 - (45)

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Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter, p2 - (45)

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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)

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.
Nederlands: Tekeningen verzameld door Felix Platter, voor gebruik in de encyclopedie Historiae animalium (1551–1558). Het tweede volume bevat afbeeldingen van uiteenlopende zoogdieren – waaronder honden, schapen en herten, maar ook panters, tijgers en kamelen – en van insecten, reptielen en amfibieën. De tekeningen werden gemaakt door verschillende kunstenaars, veelal anoniem.

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1546 - 1558
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Bijzondere collectie Universiteit van Amsterdam
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