Bibliography Detail
Bestiary or biology? Aristotle's animals in Oxford, Merton College, MS 271
in Carlos Steel, Guy Guldentops & Pieter Beullens, ed., Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1: Studia 2), Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1999, page 355-396
Digital resource (Google Books)
...animal representations in Latin manuscripts made for the new university audience, that are found in the treatises that comprise Aristotle's De animalibus remain relatively unknown. ... Starting from the question of whether the mode of animal illustrations in these radically different Latin texts conforms to their divergent philosophical positions, [this paper] will focus on one particularly important thirteenth-century illuminated copy of Aristotle's De animalibus. ... I want to examine the illustrations of ... Merton College Library (Oxford), MS. 271... - [Camille]
Language: English
ISBN: 90-6186-973-0
Last update May 12, 2023
