Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne

Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina
Volume 177, Paris, 1854
Hugonis de S. Victor Canonici Regularis S. Victoris Parisiensis, Opera Omnia
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The De bestiis et aliis rebus (On beasts and other things) is a composite text in four books. The overall author is unknown, though it was often incorrectly attributed to Hugh of St Victor.

Book I is based on the De avibus, a moralized book about birds by Hugh of Fouilloy. Books II and III are based on versions of the Latin Physiologus. Book IV is an alphabetical list of definitions, many of which are about animals.

The original text was edited by Jacques-Paul Migne in Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, Volume 177. The text from Migne was transcribed and editorial apparatus created (references, sources, search, and links to a Latin dictionary) by the Corpus Corporum project, University of Zürich, Germany. The text presented here is a reformatted version of the Corpus Corporum text, without the editorial apparatus (i.e. only the text is included). The reformatting is cosmetic only; the text itself was not modified.

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