Rhinoceros painted in the margin of a page of a 1481 edition of the Historia Naturalis by Pliny, which was added in the period 1515 to 1526. (Biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Inc.Pal. 1158).
From a Natural History text by Pliny the Elder published around the time of Dürer’s rhino. In an article by Hermann Walter (1989) he suggests it might have been made after the drawing sent by Fernando Valentino Moravia. Note absance of a doral horn. Coll. Carlo II Duke of Parma, La Biblioteca Palatina di Parma
