 | Sande, E. de 1590 De missione legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam curiam, rebusq; in Europa, ac toto itinere animadversis dialogus. Macaensi portu Sinici [=Goa], Societas Iesu, pp. i-viii, 1-412, i-xxiv |
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| [Full text in original language] Addam tamen superioribus, ibidem a nobis visas fuisse duas quasdam bestias prodigiosae veluti naturae, Elephantem videlicet, & Rhinocerotem, qui ex India in Lusitania & inde Matritum sunt delati, & propter vastam corporis molem, in usitatamq; figuram, quasinatura... |
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| Webbe, E. 1590 The rare and most wonderful thinges which Edward Webbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome travailes.. London, William Wright, pp. 1-32 |
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| [Full text in original language] Court of Prester John.
I have seen in a place like a Park adioyning unto prester Iohns Court, three score and seven-teene, Unicornes and Eliphants all alive at one time, and they were so tame that I have played with them as one would play with young lambes. |
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| Mendoza, J.G. de 1588 The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof: together with the great riches, hige citties, politike governement, and rare inventions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R.Parke. London, Edward White, pp. i-viii, 1-410 |
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| [1588:388 - 1854:311-312] - Chapter XXI
From this island you may go with ease unto Malaca, leaving on the right hand a kingdome which is called Camboia, the which is great and very full of people, and all of them affectioned to go to sea, and navigation, by reason whereof they have an infinite... |
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| Surius, L. 1586 Commentarius brevis rerum in orbe gestarum, ab anno salutis MD usque in annum MDLXXIIII ex optimis quibusque scriptoribus congestus. Coloniae, Gervinum Calenium et haeredes Ionanis Qunetelij, pp. 1-96, 1-1192 |
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| 1515. Hoc anno Lusitaniae rex Emmanuel Ulysbonae edidit insigne spectaculum elephanti cum rhinocerote certantis. Est utrunque animal immani corporis vastitate, sed longiora crura sunt elephanto. Naturale autem illis inest odium alterius in alterum, idque propter meliora pascua, ut quidam scrib... |
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| Mendoza, J.G. de 1585 Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del Gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinas, como por relacion de Religiosos y otras personas que an estado en el dicho Reyno. Roma, B. Grassi, pp. i-xxxii, 1-440 |
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Book 3, chapter 16. Prosigve las cosas de los Reynos comarcanos, al de Cochinchina, y algunas cosas notables de ellos, con los ritos y costumbres de los moradores.
Deste Reyno fue el dicho Padre a Malacca, dexando a mano derecha un Reyno llamado Camboja, eiqual... |
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| Villafane, J. de Arphe y 1585 De varia commensuracion para la esculptura y architectura. Seville, Andrea Pescioni, [not paginated] |
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| In the 1585 edition, a rhinoceros is illustrated in Book III, p.8. It animal has the skin tubercles of the Dürer woodcut, but it lacks the typical hornlet; it faces right, and has a kind of scale with numbers 1 and 2 on the left.
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| Moerman, J. 1584 Apologi creaturarum [with engravings by Marcus Gheeraerts]. Antwerp, G. de Jose, pp. i-viii, 1-64 |
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Juvenis senium contemnens, & eius paena.
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Dedecus est senibus probra aut inferre nefanda,
Nam invenum vitam tarda senecta regit.
Est senibus decus, est & honor sine fine perennis,
Queis pietas aenimo est, sed bene culta, pi... |
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| Lycosthenes, C. 1581 The doome warning all men to the iudgement. London, Ralphe Nubery, pp. i-xx, 1-437 |
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Rhinoceros, a fierce beaste enimye to the Elephannte, whose bygnesse is also greater, hys colour lyke Bore, the whole bodys covered with scales or shelles, his legs shorte, on his nose a kinde of straighte horne, which is his chiefe defence. |
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| Iunius, Hadranus 1579 M. Val. Martialis epigrammaton libri XII Xeniorum liber I Apophoretorum liber I Opera Hadriani Iunii. Antverpiae, Christophori Plantini, pp. 1-360, i-v |
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* Namque gravem gemino cornu sic extulit ursum
Quin hoc loco urum legendum sit, deducto literae S, incremento, nihil ambigo cum Iano Douza meo q tauri feri genus est, magnitudine paulo infra Elephantum, testimonio Caesarisi ut dicat, Urum, quamvis gemino, neque ingenti cornu munitu... |
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| Sassetti, F. 1579 Letter to Francesco Bonciani: p. 133
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| Filippo Sassetti, 1540-1588
Rovellasca factor at Cochin. The extract is from his letter written from Lisbon on 19 February 1579 written to Francesco Bonciani (d.1620) in Florence.
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