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Bestiary Notebooks
London: Unpublished, before 1948
Society of Antiquaries of London: DRUCE COLLECTION (archives). MS 784, volumes 13-22.
Ten notebooks containing analyses of MS bestiaries. - ref. SAL/MS/784/13-22.
Contents of MSS are listed with descriptions of representations and folio references. As follows:
- SAL/MS/784/13. BL Harl. 4751, 3244; Add. 11283; Royal 12 C.xix; Royal 12 F.xiii;
- SAL/MS/784/14. BL Harl. 273, Sloane 3544 and 278, and Egerton 613; Westminster Chapter Library 22;
- SAL/MS/784/15. Bodl. Lib., Douce 151, 167; Oxford, St John's College 178, 61;
- SAL/MS/784/16. Bodl. Lib., Bodl. 602, 764, Douce 88, 132, Ashmole 1511;
- SAL/MS/784/17. Cambridge, Univ. Lib. Kk-4-25, Ii-4-26, Gg-6-5;
- SAL/MS/784/18. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 254; S. C. Cockerell MS; Dyson Perrins MS 26;
- SAL/MS/784/19. Canterbury Cathedral Library D. 10; Paris, Arsenal 3516; Copenhagen, Univ. Lib. 673A;
- SAL/MS/784/20. Brussels, Bibl. Roy. 10. 074; BL Royal 2 B.vii; Sion College L 40. 2/L. 28; BL Cotton Vespasian A vii, Stowe 1067;
- SAL/MS/784/21. Paris, Bibl. Nat. MSS fr. 1444, 14969-70, 14964;
- SAL/MS/784/22. 'Bestiary texts transcribed or compared' containing entries arranged alphabetically by animals, with MS references.
Octavo notebooks. SAL/MS/784/13, 14, 17-22, black; SAL/MS/784/15, 16, cloth, green. All in a red box.
Creator: Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-
Compiled by Pamela J. Willetts FSA
Language: English
Last update December 6, 2021