Visboeck

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The fish book, Visboeck , sometimes also "Visbooc" or "Visboock", is a 16th century manuscript from Holland . Its author and the draftsman of the colored illustrations is the Scheveningen fishmonger and sea fish auctioneer Adriaen Coenen (1514–1587).

The color illustrated manuscript is from the North Sea - fishing , the captured and washed up fish, their fishing time and their fishing boats and nets . But the book goes far beyond that. Although a lack of university education is noticeable from time to time, you can feel Coenen's great curiosity and extensive reading. He was interested in everything about nature and so spiders , butterflies , spooky figures, sea ​​monsters , dragons , beings from distant lands, imaginary but generally thought to exist, hippos , crocodiles and other curiosities appear in the fish book .

In addition to Adriaen Coenen's professional experience and experiences, for example when he reports on the demonstration of a woman from Labrador with her child in The Hague (1567), his book is largely based on hearsay and reading, but it is of great importance to the historian.

Before the Visboeck of 1577/78 he is said to have written a similar work. His Walvisboeck and a complementary Haringkoningboeck , Walbuch and Heringskönig or Petersfischbuch have been preserved.

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literature

• JC Vermaas: Geschiedenis van Scheveningen , 1926
• Florike Egmond: Een bekende Scheveninger Adriaen Coenen en zijn Visboeck van 1578 , 1997
• Florike Egmond: Het Visboek. De wereld volgens Adriaen Coenen 1514–1587 , 2005. The fish book.
• Adriaen Coenen, Het Visboek van Adriaen Coenen , Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag Digital facsimile.

Individual evidence

Commons : Visboeck Coenen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

1. ↑ Florike Egmonds monograph and reprint of the manuscript, Het Visboek , 2005. Completely available on the website at: Royal Library of the Netherlands , The Hague .
2. ^ William C. Sturtevant, David Beers Quinn: The New Prey: Eskimos in Europe in 1567, 1576, and 1577 . In: Christian F. Feest : Indians and Europe . Alano Verlag / Edition Herodot, Aachen 1987; University of Nebraska Press, 1999, pp. 61-140 [to Coenen et al. a .: pp. 61, 74, 80, 83, 89, 91, 94, 96ff., 100f., 108, 116, 119, 132]