Table of contents : Contents Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and conventions Introduction COMMENTARY 1. The Latin bestiaries: a survey and cultural contexts 2. The Second-family bestiary text: an overview 3. Particulars of the Second-family bestiary text 4. The illustrations: an overview 5. The illustrations in significant manuscripts 6. The manuscripts: origins, owners, codicology; general audience 7. Past assumptions reviewed 8. The Second-family bestiary and medieval education 9. The decline of the Latin bestiaries EDITION and TRANSLATION CATALOG of Second-family bestiary manuscripts Appendix A: Chapters and contexts Appendix B: Interpolations in British Library Harley 3244 and Gonville & Caius 109/178; selected tituli in Harley 3244 Appendix C: Additions and corrections to the list of Latin bestiaries in Clark and McMunn, Beasts and Birds (1989) Bibliography Index of manuscripts General index Photograph credits List of illustrations by number List of illustrations by subject ILLUSTRATIONS