With the permission of the British Library, over 100 images from manuscripts in their collection are now available here. You will find these images on the gallery pages in the beast and manuscript sections. As always, updates, additions and corrections have been made to the bibliography, manuscript and other pages.

I would like to thank Lawrence Butler of England for pointing out an error and providing information to allow me to correct it. The digital text library contains three articles by George Claridge Druce, who wrote several bestiary-related articles in the early 20th century. I had thought this Druce was the botanist George Claridge Druce […]

A new digital text is available: Animals in English Wood Carving by George Druce (1914). Updates, additions and corrections have been made to the bibliography, manuscript and other pages.

A new digital text is available: The Early English Bestiary edited by Richard Morris (1872). Updates, additions and corrections have been made to the bibliography, manuscript and other pages.

A very late update! I have been busy with the digitization of a 16th century Physiologus, now online at the University of Victoria. Updates, additions and corrections have been made to the bibliography, manuscript and other pages.

A relatively minor — and late — update this time; I have been busy with a related project. There is a new text in the digital library, a version of the Physiologus attributed to Saint Epiphanius (in Latin). Some information on the use of beasts in heraldry has been added to the beast pages. As […]

This could be called the “Isidore update.” A new digital text is available: Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut. Isidore is also the subject of a new primary source page, and material from Isidore’s Etymologies has been added to the beast pages. The remainder of the material from Pliny the […]

A new digital text is available: Birds And Beasts of the Greek Anthology by Norman Douglas. The manuscript list is now available sorted by shelfmark. Many of the beast pages have been updated with material from Pliny the Elder. Pliny is also the subject of the first of the “encyclopedia” pages to be ready; more […]

The Medieval Bestiary is one year old! Well, this site is, anyway. A new digital text is available: Some Twelfth-Century Animal Carvings and Their Sources in the Bestiaries by Arthur H. Collins. The bibliography is available in a new format, which includes all of the details and annotations in one very large list. There are […]

A new digital text is available: Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by E. P. Evans. As usual, there are updates to the bibliography (over 900 items now) and more manuscript information. Bibliography lists have been enhanced with a small symbol to indicate their reliability; see the the bibliography list help for details.