EditorialEgyptische ichneumon. Herpestes ichneumon / Sandino / Egyptian Mongoose (title on object). Lombard album (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1560 - 1585. Place: Nederlanden. Measurements: h 176 mm ? w 293 mm ? h 209 mm ? w 313 mm.
EditorialGalerella pulverulenta or Herpestes pulverulentus (Cape gray mongoose). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: 15-Aug-1777. Measurements: h 660 mm ? w 480 mm; h 310 mm ? w 401 mm; h 278 mm ? w 382 mm.
Editorial‘Bazigar’, an occupation group. Conjuror with birds, mongoose and snake. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north...
EditorialThe man who killed the mongoose. Anvar-i Suhayli. India, 1610-1611. The man who killed the mongoose accidentally after it had saved his child's life. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Anvar-i Suhayli, a version of the Kalila...
EditorialViverra Ichneumon. The Ichneumon. A mongoose. . Musei Leveriani explicatio, Anglica et Latina (containing select specimens from the museum of ... Sir A. Lever), etc. vol. 1, vol. 2, pp. 1-48. Impensis Jacobi Parkinson: [London,] 1792, 96. 1792. Source:...
EditorialA cobra and a mongoose. Le Second livre de la Jungle. Traduction de Louis Fabulet et Robert d'Humie?res. Paris, [1899]. Source: File 617 opposite page 136.
EditorialThe man who killed the mongoose accidentally after it had saved his child’s life. By Anant. A.H. 1019 (A.D. 1610). ANWáR E SUHAILI, the Fables of Pilpay. Illustration from the Fables of Pilpay. Source: Add. 18579 f.267. Language: Persian.
Editorial‘Bazigar’, an occupation group. Conjuror with birds, mongoose and snake. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north...
EditorialThe man who killed the mongoose. Anvar-i Suhayli. India, 1610-1611. The man who killed the mongoose accidentally after it had saved his child's life. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Anvar-i Suhayli, a version of the Kalila...
EditorialText; illustrations of dracentse [dragonwort], and a snake and mongoose fighting. Old English Herbal. Christ Church, Canterbury; early 11th century. Source: Cotton Vitellius C. III, f.26v. Language: Latin.
EditorialRam-head (see also 08-01-14 / 17) and ichneumon, a small carnivorous animal related to the mongoose; it is sacred to the god of creation, Atum of Heliopolis because it kills the demon serpent Apophis. Green schist, L: 28 cm, Late Period, 6th-4th BCE.
EditorialFigurine Pendant of an Ichneumon, inscribed, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.); W. 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); L. 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.), The ichneumon is a rodent, similar to a mongoose, that was associated with the g...
EditorialTwo ichneumons surmounting a shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); W. 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); D. 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.), The ichneumon is a rodent, similar to a m...
EditorialBanded mongoose, Mungos mungo (Herpestes mungo?). From a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843.
EditorialYellow mongoose, Cynictis penicillata (Cynictis steedmanni). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843.
EditorialMeerkat, Suricata suricatta 1, Indian grey mongoose, Herpestes edwardsii 2, common kusimanse, Crossarchus obscurus 3, and Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus 4. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.
EditorialMongoose lemur, Eulemur mongoz. Critically endangered. (Lemur simia-sciurus Petiv.) Illustration by William Cowper of London, engraved by H.I. Tyroff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after...
EditorialNarrow-striped mongoose, Mungotictis decemlineata (vulnerable) 2, and pen-tailed treeshrew, Ptilocercus lowii 1. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.
EditorialWhite tailed mongoose, Ichneumia albicauda, and meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by...
EditorialWhite tailed mongoose, Ichneumia albicauda, and meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engr...
EditorialAfrican genet, Genetta genetta, and marsh or water mongoose, Atilax paludinosus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by ...
EditorialRam-head (see also 08-01-14 / 17) and ichneumon, a small carnivorous animal related to the mongoose; it is sacred to the god of creation, Atum of Heliopolis because it kills the demon serpent Apophis. Green schist, L: 28 cm, Late Period, 6th-4th BCE.
EditorialSlate carvings of the " Guardians of the Four Quarters" also called the Four Great Kings, who usually protect the entrances to dzongs (fortress-monasteries) and temples. Guardian of the North, Namtoese, who holds a banner and a mongoose spitt...