De Historia et Veritate Unicornis = On the history and truth of the unicorn / discovered and annotated by Michael Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Michael, 1943-

Contributor:

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Unicorns--Fiction.

Unicorns.

Unicorns in art.

Latin language materials--Bilingual.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

On the history and truth of the unicorn

Unicornis

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1983.

Summary:

An illuminated manuscript setting forth the fictional fifteenth-century diary of one Magnalucius, who records his first-hand observations of unicorns along with the facts he has learned about their natural history.

Contents:

The Discovery

From Magnalucius's Journal

On the History and Truth of the Unicorn. The Book of Generation; The Book of Nemesis; On the Garden of the Unicorn and How Man Departed Thence; The Seven Houses; On the Children of the Unicorn; Where the Unicorn Will Tarry; The Senses of the Unicorn; On the Nourishment of Unicorns; On the Leaping of the Unicorn; The Unicorn in His Battle Rapture; The Tempest; Of the Unicorn's Conduct with Other Creatures; Of the Way Man May Communicate with the Unicorn; On a Peculiar Sign of the Unicorn; On Forgotten Kingdoms; On Maidens; On the Unicorn's Friendship with an Ancient Race; Of the One Who is Beyond Laws; Of the Councils of the Unicorn; On Who May Ride the Unicorn; Of the Forest of Brocileande; Of the Secret Fraternity; On the Nature of the Horn; On the True Horn, and a Riddle; The Prophecy of the Horn.

Notes:

"The Facsimile and Translation of An Original Manuscript For Every Seeker of the Beautiful and the Wondrous"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies are "4" printing.

Running Press copy 2 has "archives 12/22/87" written in ms. on front free endpaper.

Other Format:

Online version: Green, Michael, 1943- De historia et veritate unicornis.

ISBN:

0894712160

9780894712166

0894712071

9780894712074

0894712063

9780894712067

OCLC:

9440961