A large update this time. The section on the bestiary “Family” classification system is now ready. This links to several other parts of the site, so it is a good starting point for exploration of the bestiary genre. There are also several more “primary source” articles, new and updated manuscript descriptions, a few more pictures, […]

A new digital text is now available: Le Bestiaire de Gervaise, a Norman French rhyming verse bestiary of the thirteenth century, in a critical edition by Paul Meyer (1872). There is also a little information on Gervaise, plus the usual updates to the bibliography and manuscript sections.

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 […]