English versions of the Physiologus can be found from the Old English period; this is a translation from one of the Latin versions. For the Middle English version, it is based on the Latin version which was composed by Theobald (or Thetbaldus). ... The Middle English Physiologus is preserved in the British Library, Arundel MS 292 (ff. 4r-10v). This is the unique manuscript that has been transmitted the present work through until the present day. ... The present study deals with some of the rhymes in the Middle English Physiologus, which may engender a little difficulty in deciding what the quality of the vowel contained in the rhymes was. - [Author]

Includes a diplomatic edition of the Middle English text.

Language: English