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Pictures from the Buch der Natur, or Book of nature, by Konrad von Megenberg; this edition was made by Johann Bämler and is dated 20th August (St. Bartholomew’s Day) 1481.
The book is online at the Library of Congress; I have taken only a few of the page images bearing interesting pictures, and cleaned them up a little.
The images are in the public domain. Please link back to me if you use them.
Title: Buch der Natur [Book of Nature]
Published by: Johann Bämler
City: Augsbur
Date: 1481
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Megenberg-BookderNatur/wm/big/0199r-detail-mermaid-q85-212x200.jpg "[picture: Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto]")
Winged Mermaid from p. 199 recto
A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Page 113. Four Footed Beasts.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Megenberg-BookderNatur/wm/big/0113r-four-footed-beasts-q85-138x200.jpg "[picture: Page 113. Four Footed Beasts.]")
![[picture: Page 67. Heaven and Earth.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Megenberg-BookderNatur/wm/big/0067-heaven-and-earth-q75-137x200.jpg "[picture: Page 67. Heaven and Earth.]")
![[picture: Strange and Fantastical Creatures]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Megenberg-BookderNatur/wm/big/0199r-strange-creatures-q90-137x200.jpg "[picture: Strange and Fantastical Creatures]")
Strange and Fantastical Creatures
I cannot read the text (it’s in mediæval German), so these descriptions are arbitrary; I’d welcome better descriptions. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Page 151. Birds of the Air.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Megenberg-BookderNatur/wm/big/0151v-birds-of-the-air-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 151. Birds of the Air.]")
Eagle and duck, peacock and rooster, jackdaw and goose! (what else?)
The page has only this illustration, no text. [$]
Pictures from the Buch der Natur, or Book of nature, by Konrad von Megenberg; this edition was made by Johann Bämler and is dated 20th August (St. Bartholomew’s Day) 1481.
The book is online at the Library of Congress; I have taken only a few of the page images bearing interesting pictures, and cleaned them up a little.
The images are in the public domain. Please link back to me if you use them.
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