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Prince Elector of Saxony (Vague) ( - )

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Notes: References in Documents:
A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) The Hornes of a Hare, which were the Prince Electors of Saxony.
A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) The Hornes of a Hare, which were the Prince Electors of Saxony.
A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) The hornes of a Hare, it was the Prince Elector Duke of Saxony.
A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A Cross of wood, growing in the form of Saint Andrews Cross, given by Doctor Pinker, one of the privy Council to the Prince Elector of Sax.
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

The HORNES of a HARE; so I find them inscribed. Although it is probable, that they are the hornes of a small kind of German Deer. Yet Wormius saith, There are horned-Hares in Saxony. See also Gesner of the same. Johnston gives the Picture, without a Descripton. This pair, once belonged to the Prince Elector of Saxony.