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The Big-Eared People of Dondun, Pigmies, Giant Storks, Giant Ants, and Monkeymen of the Indian Subcontinent from Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt (Cosmographia: The Description of the Whole World.)
Sebastian Munster. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578.
This disbound leaf from Munste'rs Cosmographia measures 8" x 13.5". It contains six woodcuts showing unusual men and animals from the Indian subcontinent. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning.
- One woodcut shows a pigmy conversing with a man from Dondun where the peoples' ears were so large they could be used as sleeping blankets.
- Three woodcuts picture storks: one of them shows giant storks fighting a human army.
- Another illustration shows an ant that is larger than a tree, and
- The last is of a monkey-man carrying his sword and spear.
Sebastian Munster was a cosmographer and professor of Hebrew who taught at several European universities. During his life, he became the center of a network of scholars who provided him with maps, anecdotes, and descriptions of phenomena of the known world. In 1554, he first published his "Cosmographia" which contained 471 woodcut illustrations and 26 maps. it was reprinted in six languages in 46 editions of the next hundred years, and Munster's writings, maps, and illustrations influenced scholarly thought for generations beyond that.
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