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Historical Bibliography Updated: April 22, 2018

Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon.

Publication Details

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557 CE.

This encyclopedic chronology of portentious events in human history includes many monstrous births, both human and animal. Actual cases are uncritically mingled with mythical creatures. German translation, 1557. English translaion: The doome warning all men to the iudgemente: wherein are contayned for the most parte all the straunge prodigies hapned in the worlde, with diuers secrete figures of reuelations tending to mannes stayed conuersion towardes God: in maner of a generall chronicle, gathered out of sundrie approued authors by St. Batman professor in diuinite. (London, 1581).

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#534.5
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/1797
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLprodigiorum-ac-ostentorum-chronicon

Geographic Context

Publication place: Basel

Mentioned in annotation: London