local fisherman from Scheveningen near The Hague & wholesaler in fish
self-taught autodidact, specially interested in fish anatomy
Netherlands
Visboeck (Fischbuch) (1577-1581, w. 125 folio pages), Haringkoningboeck (Heringskönig or Petersfisch-Buch); Walvisboeck (i.e. Whale Book, 1584-1586, with 421 folio pages written and illustrated by A. C.);
Cornelis Suys, President of the Court of Holland in The Hague ;
botanist Rembertus Dodonaeus (Dodoens), court physician of the emperors Maximiliam II & Rudolph II at Vienna 1574-1578 & prof. at the university of Leiden 1583-1585) ; painter ->Cornelis C. Sceveninc ;
zoological, marine, mammal, and ichthyological drawing and watercolour ; hand-colouring
www.kb.nl/bladerboeken/het-visboek-van-adriaen-coenen ; Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague; Libary Antwerpen; City Archive Cologne
Florike Egmond: Het visboek-De Wereld Volgens Adriaen Coenen 1514-1587 (The Hague 2005); P. Mason: The Whale Book - Whales & Other Marine Animals as described by A.C. in 1585 (London 2003); Florike Egmond: Curious Fish, in: Early Modern Zoology (Boston 2009: 245-72); Kury 2014: 66-69;
The complete Vishbook is available at www.koninklijkebiblotheek.nl :
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