Museum Plantin-Moretus Online Catalogue

Object number
MPM.HB.03977
Title
- African buffalo or Cape buffalo [Syncerus caffer]
Creator
Pieter van der Borcht (designer), Geeraard Jansen van Kampen (woodcutter (printmaker))
Production date
1588
Object name
woodblock (printing matrix)
Material
wood (plant material)
Technique
woodcut (printing process)
Acquisition date
1876-04-20
Acquisition method
purchase - Moretus, Edward
Printed in
- Pierre Belon, Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Judaea, Arabia, aliisque exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes, tribus libris expressae, 1589, p. 282
- Carolus Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem: item Petri Bellonii observationes, 1605, Bellonius p. 119
Literature
- Léon Voet, The Plantin Press, 1555-1589: a bibliography of the works printed and published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden, 1980-1983, nr. 639