Monstrorum historia memorabilis : monstrosa humanorum partuum miracula : stupendis conformationum formulis ab vtero materno enata : viuis exemplis, obseruationibus, & picturis, referens : accessit analogicum argumentum de monstris brutis : Supplementi loco ad observationes medicas Schenkianas edita

Schenck, Johann Georg, -approximately 1620, author · 1609 · Francofurti : Ex Officina typographia Matthiae Beckeri, impensis viduae Theodori de Bry, & duorum eius filiorum · 23 pictures

Monstrorum historia memorabilis is a 1609 catalogue of human birth anomalies compiled by physician Johann Georg Schenck and printed at Frankfurt by Matthias Becker for the de Bry heirs. Its pages show small woodcut figures of infants with deformed bodies, numbered in sequence, drawn in a plain, schematic manner. A designer might find in them a record of early modern naturalist diagrams, with numbered plates, hatched linework and stiff standing poses.

Monsters · Abnormalities, Human · Teratology · Curiosities and wonders · Monsters -- Early works to 1800 · Abnormalities, Human -- Early works to 1800 · Teratology -- Early works to 1800 · Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1800

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