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  Medieval Walsingham Priory seal showing the cult image Scan

  from Our Lady of Walsingham: Richeldis de Faverches's vision and the building of the Holy House (1061)
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  Opening page of the Peterborough Chronicle (Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 636), the manuscript that records the 1127 hunt Scan

  Photographed by en:User:Geogre; original by the Peterborough monastic scribes ·from The Peterborough Wild Hunt (1127)

  pittene risland if ehta hund mula laurs. ŋta hund bpad. They rind on his rislande fif se beode. enslife. ÷ bjut ture. ÷ pilre. ÷ preyture. ÷ pyhture. ÷ boc leden. Epent peion busend pifer lander bputter. pa coman of ammena. 7 se ratan rudepeande bputtene apoft. Pa se lamp hrc þ pyh tar coman rupan o…

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  A merman by the sea, wood engraving. A generic merman, not the Orford event. Scan

  Wellcome Library, London ·from The Wild Man (Merman) of Orford, Suffolk (1167)
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  Aldrovandi, Monstrorum historia, p. 28 (1642) Scan

  Edward Worth Library ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Woodcuts attributed to Stefan Hamer (1546), Lycosthenes (1557) and Sluperius (1572), side by side Scan

  Paxton & Holland 2005, Steenstrupia 29(1) ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Gesner, De pisce monachi habitu (1558) Scan

  from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  The sea monk in Belon's De aquatilibus (1553) Scan

  Gallica / BnF ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Rondelet, p. 492 Scan

  Edward Worth Library ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Sluperius plate (1572) as reproduced in The Book of Days (1869) Scan

  from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Gesner, Historia animalium IV, p. 439 (1604 edition) Scan

  BHL Flickr ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  Humana facie esse videbatur, sed rutilica & agresti, capite rafo & laui, humeros contegebat veluti monachorum nostrorum cucullus. Pinnas duas longas pro brachijs habebat. Pars insima in caudam latam desinebat, media multo erat latior, sagi militaris figura. Hanc effigié mihi dono dedit illustrissima…

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  Gesner's sea monk (dated 1575 on Commons) Scan

  from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Belon's sea monk (1553) Scan

  Ernst Mayr Library, MCZ Harvard ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Belon's book on display in the British Library Animals exhibition (2023) Scan

  Mgiganteus1 ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  actually er seen word of a later ns of plants artists ced stake. Monkfish This inaccurate depiction of a monkfish highlights the value of first-hand observation. This publication was the first comprehensive collection of illustrated fish descriptions. The author Pierre Belon's image was based on an …

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  Gesner (1620) above and Paré (1685) below Scan

  Edward Worth Library ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Monstre marin en habit de Moine, reproduced in Jordan's Fishes (1907) Scan

  from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Aldrovandi, Monstrorum historia, p. 28 (1642) Scan

  from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Rondelet's monk fish (1554) Scan

  Smithsonian Libraries ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Rondelet, Libri de piscibus marinis, p. 492 (1554) Scan

  Biodiversity Heritage Library ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  foramē in fronte in a peram arteriam delinens. Item cum branchia- rum scissura, cum pedibus, vnguibus, lquamis quibus omnibus certi- simú est balænas carere. Prēterea ex testudine marina finxerút mon strum à quo vitulus marinus auriculas habens præter veritatē, deuo- ratur. Nec minùs absurdē orcā pi…

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  Second view of the British Library Animals exhibition display (2023) Scan

  Mgiganteus1 ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  Mon frorum superius enumeratorum figuram ac formam quibuldam in locis reperin diderim, if verum est quod de Monacho pifce in Noruegia apud Diezunt appellator pop oppidum Den Elepoch repertum fuisse tradunt:cuius formam sequens figura te docbitit dies vixiffe aiunt, ac nullam vocem edidiffe, praterqu…

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  Meermönch display at the Zurich Zoological Museum (2016) Scan

  Adrian Michael ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)
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  Huntroyde Hall, the Starkie family seat, viewed from the south lawn (April 2017). Scan

  Wikimedia Commons ·from The Seven in Lancashire: the Cleworth Hall Possessions (1595)
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  Title page of Edward Jorden's A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) Scan

  Wellcome Collection ·from The possession of Mary Glover and the trial of Elizabeth Jackson (1602)

  A BRIEFE DISCOURSE OF A DISSEASE CALLED THE Suffocation of the chest Written upon occasion which takes from the character of the presentation of the subject, the introduction may be introduced more. Worries is the locus of what dinner forsakes all and all the people of all classes of society, who ar…

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  The illustration from the London broadsheet of the giant squid stranded at Dingle in 1673 Scan

  Francis Smith, London, c. 1674 ·from The Dingle "wonderful fish or beast": a giant squid stranded in County Kerry, 1673 (1673)

  A true Relation of a strange Monster that lately was by a Storm, driven a shore at Dingle-I-coth in the County of Kerry in Ireland, with Letters Teftimonial, under the hands of credible Eye-witnesses. To Mr. John Wickins at the Mearmaid in Millstreet, London. Oving Friend, I heard of this following …

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  Marker for John Mason, whose proprietary land claim shaped the island's politics. Scan

  New England Historical Society ·from Lithobolia: the stone-throwing devil at George Walton's tavern, Great Island, New Hampshire (1682)

  MASON'S PATENT New Hampshire, as granted by authority of the English Crown to Captain John Mason in 1629, was bounded on the west and north by a curved line 60 miles distant from the sea. The course of this proprietary boundary, called the "Masonian Curve", coincides with the nearby town line betwee…

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  1930s Schools' Collection manuscript, Grange, 'Caiseal an Ghearráin' Scan

  Dúchas, National Folklore Collection ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  The Great Sea Serpent (according to Hans Egede), engraving c. 1843 Scan

  James Hope Stewart ·from Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734 (1734)
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  Henry Lee's interpretation of the 1734 sea serpent as a giant squid Scan

  Henry Lee, Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883) ·from Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734 (1734)
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  The 1734 sea serpent, redrawn by Henry Lee after a sketch by the missionary Andreas Bing Scan

  Henry Lee, Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883), after Bing ·from Hans and Poul Egede's "most dreadful monster": the Davis Strait sea serpent of 1734 (1734)
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  Gessner's Simia marina, the sea ape Steller compared the animal to, from the Felix Platter collection, 1546 to 1558 Scan

  Artist unknown; Special Collections, University of Amsterdam ·from Steller's Sea Ape in the Gulf of Alaska (1741)
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  Great sea serpent shot at by the crew of Lawrence de Ferry in 1746. Steel engraving by W. H. Lizars after James Stewart, from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora (Edinburgh, 1839). An artist's reconstruction. Scan

  Album/Florilegius/Album Archivo/SuperStock ·from Captain Lorenz von Ferry's sea serpent off Molde, 1746 (1746)
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  The Massachusetts Spy, or Worcester Gazette, 2 November 1809, which printed "The Mermaid" on its front page Scan

  Rarenewspapers.com ·from The Reay mermaid of Sandside Bay, Caithness, 1809 (1809)

  o produce melons. telligence. 10 NDIES. the Governor Gen. has received the force that a detach- ary force at Hydra- sard of Lieut. Col. of a corps of horse units of native infant- province of Cande- the predatory force Seup. Row Holkar, and Dandieu Khan, of near 100 miles, surprising the enemy hair,…

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  Massachusetts Spy, 2 November 1809, carrying the related Sandside Bay, Caithness mermaid story (a different case) Scan

  Rare Newspapers ·from The Kintyre Mermaid, 1811: John M'Isaac and Catherine Loynachan (1811)

  o produce melons. telligence. 10 NDIES. the Governor Gen. has received the force that a detach- ary force at Hydra- sard of Lieut. Col. of a corps of horse units of native infant- province of Cande- the predatory force Seup. Row Holkar, and Dandieu Khan, of near 100 miles, surprising the enemy hair,…

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  Dissection diagrams of the young serpent Scan

  Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Title page of the 1817 Linnaean Society report Scan

  Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Captain John Beach's drawing of 23 August 1817, engraved by E.J. Lane & J. How, Boston Scan

  Hosted by KNOWOL ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  1817 illustration of the Gloucester sea serpent Scan

  Author unknown; via Ellis, Monsters of the Sea (1994) ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Diagram of the supposed Gloucester Sea Serpent, from the 1817 report Scan

  Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Drawing of the 1817 sea serpent Scan

  New England Historical Society; artist not given ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Fold-out plate of Scoliophis atlanticus Scan

  Massachusetts Historical Society ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Detail from Nathanael Low's almanac, 1818 Scan

  Massachusetts Historical Society ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  KNOWOL header image for the Gloucester sea serpent page Scan

  KNOWOL ·from The Gloucester Sea Serpent and the Linnaean Society Inquiry (1817)
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  Will Sampson with a muskie, a modern fish catch unrelated to the 1833 event Scan

  via CBC ·from Captain Abijah Kellogg and the Lake Ontario sea serpent (1833) (1833)
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  Kingston waterfront in 1919 Scan

  from Captain Abijah Kellogg and the Lake Ontario sea serpent (1833) (1833)
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  Header image of the southeastern Ontario region Scan

  from Captain Abijah Kellogg and the Lake Ontario sea serpent (1833) (1833)
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  Image placed after the Kellogg paragraph in Thousand Islands Life, probably a clipping or illustration (unconfirmed) Scan

  from Captain Abijah Kellogg and the Lake Ontario sea serpent (1833) (1833)
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  A page of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research printing of the case Scan

  Lenora, Haunted Palace blog ·from The Willington Mill Haunting and Edward Drury's Overnight Vigil (1840)
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  "Great Sea Serpent", Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion Scan

  Gleason's Pictorial ·from HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848 (1848)

  HEAD OF THE SEA SERPENT SEEN BY CAPT. M'QUILE. W of Good Hope on the 30th of July and reached St. Helena on the 16th of August. Next, the following very interesting report, by Captain M'Quiah, was forwarded to the Admiralty: "Her Majesty's Ship Dreadfuls, Hamanoze, Oct. 11. "Sir—In reply to your let…

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  Framing plan of HMS Daedalus, 1822 Scan

  Royal Museums Greenwich ·from HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848 (1848)
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  Illustrated London News, 1848, page 265 Scan

  Edwin Weedon after Frederick James Smyth ·from HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848 (1848)

  HE\D OF THE SEA-SERPENT SEEN BY CAPT. M'QUILE. pearance of the Sorpent, under the supervision of Captain M'Quhue, and with his approval of the authenticity of their details as to position and form. The next communication is the following letter, addressed, within the past ten days, to the Editor of …

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  The Daedalus sea serpent, 1848 engraving Scan

  Edwin Weedon after Frederick James Smyth ·from HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848 (1848)