A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second-Family Bestiary. Commentary, Art, Text and Translation 9780851156828, 0851156827
The bestiary - a book of animals, both real and mythical - is one of the most interesting and appealing medieval artefac
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English Pages 344 [347] Year 2006
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
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
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- Willene B. Clark
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