One of the four images of the cockatoo gifted to Frederick II by the ‘Sultan of Babylon’. Codex Ms. Pal.

Lat 1071, folio 20v (© [2018] Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana). For a high resolution colour image see

article published in Parergon 35/1 (June 2018): 35-60.

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-did-a-cockatoo-reach-13th-century-sicily

4x dargestellt im Falkenbuch von Friedrich II

https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bav_pal_lat_1071/0040/image,info,thumbs

/diglit/bav_pal_lat_1071/0040/image,info

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/woher-kommt-der-kakadu-100.html

Kakadu von HRR Kaiser Friedrich II.

Geschenk des “Sultan von Babylon” an Friedrich II. (um 1240)

Mantegna Madonna della

Vittoria 1496

später

The Holy Roman Emperor King Frederick II of Sicily’s falconry book, De Arte

Venandi cum Avibus (The Art of Hunting with Birds) features 900 pictures of

birds in its margins. Picture: De Arte Venandi cum Avibus / Alamy

https://www.google.ch/search?ei=STvZXKm4BdCJk74Pl7SGwA8&q=handel+celebes+mittelalter&oq=handel+celebes+mittelalter&g

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Mgliche Routen eines arabischen Dhow-Schiffs, gesunken um 830 CE (christian era) vor

der Insel Belitung (Indonesien), mit Exportgtern der T’ang an Bord.

Emil Nolde - Zwei Kakadus

1920-25

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