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The Horn of Windsor

16 Nov 2018November 19, 2018
The Horn of Windsor was a unicorn horn (alicorn) owned by Elizabeth I. The corpus of material surrounding both the Martin Frobisher voyages and unicorns links the Horn of Windsor…
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What Unicorns Sound Like

10 Jul 2018September 29, 2018
We now know what unicorns sound like. Narwhal tusks were often viewed as being unicorn horns (alicorn) during the medieval and early modern periods, in part because they are long…
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Unicorns in Java

27 Jul 2017September 29, 2018
In 1613, Samuel Purchas published Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In…
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The Unicorn in Raleigh, NC

21 Feb 2017October 2, 2018
The North Carolina Museum of Art houses The Triumph of Chastity (ca. 1450-1460), a painting produced by the workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni di Tommaso. The painting was probably presented…
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The Virgin Bride and the Unicorn

11 Jan 2017October 4, 2018
Around 1494, to celebrate either the engagement or marriage of Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Goazzadini to Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Goazzadini, artist Maestro delle Storie del Pane  painted the portraits of…
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The Unicorn in Fabyn’s Cronycle

11 Nov 2016October 2, 2018
Robert Fabyan (1455? – 1512) was a draper, sheriff, and author of Fabyans cronycle. The Cronycle recounted English and French history covering the time period from the legendary first king…
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Unicorns in Shakespeare

20 Oct 2016September 29, 2018
William Shakespeare mentioned unicorns three times in his plays: Julius Caesar (1599), Timon of Athens (1605), and The Tempest (1610). In Julius Caesar, Decius described how a unicorn could be caught by a…
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The Savages say there be Unicorns – How a Unicorn appeared on a French Map from 1546

23 Sep 2016September 23, 2016
On a map created by Frenchman Pierre Desceliers in 1546, a solitary white unicorn appeared situated between Penobscot Bay and Cape Cod. How did it get there?      …
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Unicorns and the Northwest Passage

2 Sep 2016September 29, 2018
In 1576, Humphry Gilbert published A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia to drum up the political and economic support he needed to raise a venture…
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Doubting Unicorns and their Horns

27 Aug 2016September 21, 2016
Thomas Browne was an English physician and author. In 1646, he wrote a book entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica which he subtitled Inquiries in Vulgar and Common Errors where he tackled topics ranging…
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A surgeon’s advice for what to do when you have a patient to treat but you’re fresh out of unicorn horn.

26 Aug 2016August 26, 2016
John Woodall was a surgeon who held a variety of jobs including stocking the medical chests of the ships bound in the service of the East India Company, the army,…
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Of the Unicorns of the Temple of Mecca

2 Aug 2016September 21, 2016
  This account arrived to me through a circuitous route -  and it may be best to trace to the path of the account's publication to contextualize the relation of…
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The Unicorn in Laurence Andrew’s The Noble Lyfe / Hortus Sanitatis

1 Aug 2016August 1, 2016
Laurence Andrew (fl. 1510-1537) was a printer and translator active in Antwerp. Not much is known about him and many of the works he translated and/or printed have not survived…
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The Unicorn in Clariodus

24 Jul 2016July 25, 2016
Clariodus: A Metrical Romance is a peculiar poem. The author is unknown and the poem was probably based on the French work entitled Cleriadus et Meliadice from c. 1440. The…
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Martin Luther and the Unicorn Horn

30 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Martin Luther, the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, spent his last three days on earth working. He delivered a sermon that in part encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity…
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Alicorn

20 Jun 2016September 29, 2018
Sea Unicorns from The History of Barados, St. Christophers, Mevis, St Vincents, Antego, Martinico, Monserrat, and the rest of the Caribby-Islands (London, 1666). One of the first pieces of Anglo-American…
Ancient World…

The Unicorn in the Physiologus and Bestiaries

15 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Medieval Christian scholars across Europe read the Physiologus making the book's circulation second only to that of the Bible.” The Physiologus was based on Indian, Hebrew, and Egyptian legends that later…
Bible…

Unicorns in the Bible

13 Jun 2016October 4, 2018
Numbers 23:22-23 from the Geneva Bible (1560) The unicorn existed in the ancient world as well as appeared in the unchallengeable Christian text, the Bible.  Various editions of the English…
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Ancient Authorities on the Unicorn

13 Jun 2016September 29, 2018
  Many early-modern Europeans believed in the existence of unicorns, in part, due to the writings of ancient authorities. Ctesias (ca. 400 BCE), the Greek physician who served the Persian…

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