Snake with plant tail; Zeld-saeme Snake. / anguis Singularis. / Serpent Extraordinaire (title on object); Wonderful snake with a tail from which a plant grows. Below the performance two manuscripts in Latin about the performance; indicating the discovery of this snake by Bubulco Croata in the year 1547. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles; amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with watercolors of animals; birds and plants; known around 1600; commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch; Latin and French; snakes; fabulous animals; snakes (aspic; tarragon; hydrus; hydra; amphisbaena; horned snake; cerastes); Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; Praag; 1596 - 1610; paper; pencil; chalk; watercolor (paint); deck paint; ink; pen; h 270 mm x w 184 mm