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The identification of the wicked and their descent into hell. Engraving by A. Collaert.
Adriaen CollaertDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 2027433i
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Two remarkable and true histories, which hapned this present yeare, 1619 : The one relating how God most miraculously restored to health Elizabeth Goossens Taets, dwelling in the Long street neere St. Georges Church in Amers-ford by Vtrecht in the Low-countries, the 29. of August last, after fiue and twenty yeares great inabilitie and weaknesse of body. The other shewing how a maruellous deformed monster was found in the belly of a cow which was killed by Iohn Vandel malt-man of Amers-ford aforesaid, the first day of October last. 1619. Both which may serue to inuite vs to serious repentance and vnfained amendment of life, in this wicked and decaying age.
Date: 1620
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Hybridity, identity, and monstrosity in medieval Britain : on difficult middles / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Jeffrey Jerome CohenDate: 2006
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The presentation of Jesus to the priest of the Temple. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Paolo VeroneseReference: 24052i
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Rarioris monstri, in museo anatomico Lipsiensi adservati, descriptio anatomica.
Cerutti, Friedrich Peter Ludwig, 1789-1858.Date: [1827]
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A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
Francisco GoyaDate: [1796/1798]Reference: 38562i
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By His Majestys authority. At the [blank] is to be seen two monsters : which by medicines prescribed (by Madam Goodin, in Goodman's-Fields).
Date: [1696]
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"Trattato delle operationi chirurgiche...": apparently written by Domenico Cauda of Turin
Dionis, Pierre, 1645-1718.Date: c. 1730Reference: MS.2129
Part of: Dionis, Pierre (1645-1718)
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Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
Berlin: Königliche Akademie der WissenschaftenDate: 1748-1757Reference: MSS.1140-1142
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The strange monster or, true news from Nottingham-shire of a strange monster born at Grasly in Nottingham-shire, three miles from Nottingham : with a relation of his strange and wonderful shape, the time his mother was in travail with him, with several other things of note. Together with a brief relation of several monstrous and prodigious births which happened heretofore in this our nation. Licensed according to order.
Date: 1668
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A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Wenceslaus HollarDate: [1674]Reference: 24373i
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Two human figures with abnormalities
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A true relation of a monstrons [sic] female-child : with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body. Born about the 19th of May last, ar [sic] a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in somerset=shire. Likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange, with several remarkable passages observed from it since its birth, so great and amazing, that the like has not been known in many ages: with many other circumstances. As it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Tauntou-Dean [sic], to a gentleman here in London, and attested by many hundreds of no mean rank; and well koown [sic] to several gentlemen in and about London.
Date: [1685?]
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Bellerophon slaying the Chimera; representing the defeat of heresy (Protestantism) in Belgium by Ferdinand of Spain. Etching by T. van Thulden, c. 1640, after P.P. Rubens, 1635.
Peter Paul RubensDate: 1635Reference: 27226i
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Strange nevves out of Kent : of a monstrous and misshapen child, borne in Olde Sandwitch, vpon the 10. of Iulie, last, the like (for strangenes) hath neuer beene seene.
Date: 1609
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The true discripcion of a childe with ruffes borne in the parish of Micheham in the cou[n]tie of Surrey in the yeere of our Lord. M.D.LXvi.
H. B., active 1566Date: Anno domini. M.D.Lxvi. the .xx. of August [1566]
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Haunted : on ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, and other monsters of the natural and supernatural worlds / Leo Braudy.
Leo BraudyDate: [2016]
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The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire : which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.
Date: [1645]
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Sur un monstre double autositaire de la famille des monosomiens (Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire) / par le Docteur Paul Bert ; Note sur un cas de greffe animale / par le même. Altérations anatomiques de la moelle, des nerfs et des muscles dans un cas de paralysie infantile chez une femme morte de cancer du sein / par V. Cornil.
Paul BertDate: [©1863?]
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A monster with seven heads and arms, and hooved lower limbs, born in 1578. Etching by G.B. Cavalieri, 1585.
Giovanni Battista de'CavalieriDate: 1585Reference: 653163i
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The faces of two red monsters with jagged teeth facing each other and a red grid
Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990Date: March 1967Reference: 2889261i / 2889262i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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The god Apollo holding his bow and an arrow. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Étienne DelauneDate: 1560-1569Reference: 25877i
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A room with hallucinatory beings and weird furnishings. Watercolour by Auguste Laurent, 1844.
Auguste LaurentDate: 1844Reference: 585899i
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Collected papers on gynaecology and obstetrics.
Date: c.1750-1913Reference: MS.1720
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A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.
Arthur RackhamDate: 1905Reference: 15344i

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The identification of the wicked and their descent into hell. Engraving by A. Collaert.

Hybridity, identity, and monstrosity in medieval Britain : on difficult middles / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

The presentation of Jesus to the priest of the Temple. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.

Rarioris monstri, in museo anatomico Lipsiensi adservati, descriptio anatomica.

A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

By His Majestys authority. At the [blank] is to be seen two monsters : which by medicines prescribed (by Madam Goodin, in Goodman's-Fields).

"Trattato delle operationi chirurgiche...": apparently written by Domenico Cauda of Turin

Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.

Two human figures with abnormalities

Bellerophon slaying the Chimera; representing the defeat of heresy (Protestantism) in Belgium by Ferdinand of Spain. Etching by T. van Thulden, c. 1640, after P.P. Rubens, 1635.

Strange nevves out of Kent : of a monstrous and misshapen child, borne in Olde Sandwitch, vpon the 10. of Iulie, last, the like (for strangenes) hath neuer beene seene.

The true discripcion of a childe with ruffes borne in the parish of Micheham in the cou[n]tie of Surrey in the yeere of our Lord. M.D.LXvi.

Haunted : on ghosts, witches, vampires, zombies, and other monsters of the natural and supernatural worlds / Leo Braudy.

A monster with seven heads and arms, and hooved lower limbs, born in 1578. Etching by G.B. Cavalieri, 1585.

The faces of two red monsters with jagged teeth facing each other and a red grid

The god Apollo holding his bow and an arrow. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.

A room with hallucinatory beings and weird furnishings. Watercolour by Auguste Laurent, 1844.

Collected papers on gynaecology and obstetrics.

A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.