A Renoceros.
Rhinoceros nunquam vurtus ab hoste redit. Ab altero expectes, alteri quod feceris.
Drawing by William Burch.
In a manuscript volume dated around 1590-1591.
Preserved in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CCA-DCc/LitMs/A/14
“Pen and ink drawings of various subjects, including Eskimo or Inuit people [Indigenous Canadians] on f10r. , “A boke of drawing of the shapes and formes of divers beasts, foules, birds, fishes, monsters, serpents, trees, herbes, plantes, and flowers, with diverse accidents of antiquities, and armoury, drawn by me William Burch, alias Ellis, alias Vicar of the King’s Bench in Southwark, this XXth Aug. 1590, anno XXXIImo Elizabethe Regine wch booke pertenes to John Nettleton gent being Master to the sayd Wm. Burch”. Rebound 1873.”
