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Title: Leucurcuta, Lio minor, Martigora
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
Date Created and/or Issued: 1650
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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Description: Engraving containing three images: 1. Leucurcuta (or Leucrocuta) a mythical creature the size of a donkey, with features of a stag and a lion, with cloven hooves. 2. Leo minor (or lion), in the background a man on horseback hunts the lion. 3. Martigora (or manticor), a mytical creature with the body and four legs of a lion, the head of a man, and the tail of a scorpion or dragon. Scanned from plate LVII (i.e. 57) in Joannes Jonstonus' Histoirae naturalis de quadrupetibus, published in Frankfurt am Main by the Heirs of Matthaeus Merian in 1650.
Type: image
Format: 1 plate, in book
art
Identifier: rbm-m57
rbm-jonstonus-historiae-leom
http://doi.org/10.25549/rbm-m57
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/rbm-jonstonus-historiae-leom.jpg
Language: Latin
Subject: Lions
Animals, Mythical
Source: QL673.J66 1650 [Call Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Jonstonus, Joannes. Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus. Frankfurt am Main : impensis Haeredum Math. Meriani, 1650
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Science
rbm-m36

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