Hedgehog (left) and a hazel mouse (right). Numbered top right: 4. Top left the name in nine languages. Part of the first album with drawings of quadrupeds. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by emperor Rudolf II. With notes in Dutch, Latin and French., Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) and a hazel mouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) 1. yser vercken 2. / 1 Herinaceus 2 Mus avellanorum minor / 1. Herisson. 2. Mus-Cardin, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610

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