There was a bug in my gallery script that caused all Beast galleries to fail to load if the Manuscript or Encyclopedia gallery image order was set to “Manuscript order”. I fixed it, but you may need to refresh the page in the browser before it works (that’s Control-F5 in Firefox or Chrome for Windows; […]

This update is about manuscripts, mostly bestiary manuscripts from the Latin families. The Latin family manuscripts include the better known bestiaries such as the Aberdeen Bestiary. Manuscripts These manuscripts have had all of their illustrations loaded, descriptions updated, and beast lists completed. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Gall.16 (Psalter of Isabelle of France) Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg.lat.258 British […]

A bunch of stuff both new and updated, including several enhancements to the Medieval Bestiary site structure and functionality. Site Enhancements Image galleries for Encyclopedia entries and Manuscripts can now be displayed in beast name order or in manuscript appearance order. (Beast image galleries are always in manuscript appearance order.) Beast name order is the […]

The Bestiaire d’amour or Bestiary of Love is not a traditional bestiary. It has bestiary animals doing bestiary things, but it has a much different purpose. Where the traditional bestiary is a tool for teaching Christian morality, the Bestiaire is a desperate attempt by the author, Richard de Fournival, to win the love of a […]

Though there several new things in this update, it is mostly about manuscripts and their images. Manuscripts I have been examining manuscripts, trying to find information on some elusive ones, and updating descriptions and images for the some of the ones I already knew about. Arnamagnæanske Institut, AM 673 a 4º (Icelandic Physiologus): This is […]

This is a general update, with something for everyone. I have added a lot of new data this time. Images: There are several hundred new and updated images, bringing the total to almost 2200. This batch are all from manuscripts, and some are spectacular; see Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, for example. Several manuscripts and […]

I wasn’t satisfied with the way the galleries were working, and so I changed them. The initial page of image thumbnails is gone; it was slow, and as the number of images went up it just got slower. Instead the gallery page itself will appear immediately (and rapidly) in a small size, though still big […]

Lots of changes, updates, new materials in this update. The Bestiary Family lists have been updated. Almost all of the listed manuscripts now have a link to the description page for that manuscript. There are a few that remain elusive; the libraries where they live have them well hidden, but I am persistent (possibly obsessive) […]

More of everything, pretty much. A few new manuscripts (not new as in fresh out of the scriptorium!) A bunch of manuscript updates Some beast updates About 200 more images from manuscripts A pile of new and updated bibliography items Updates to the encyclopedia Updates to the Bestiary Family pages to bring the ordering and […]

I wasn’t planning a full update quite this soon, but I discovered a problem with the last update (some of the images on the beast pages failed to load). All fixed now. One new feature, which forced me to do a full update: The “hamburger” menu has some extra options to allow you to jump […]