The Ashmole Bestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century. Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they were studied and categorized into families by M.R. James in 1928.[1] The Ashmole Bestiary is part of the Second-family of manuscript Latin bestiaries, wherein it is one of forty eight. The "Second-family" bestiary is the most popular and widely distributed type of these manuscripts. It is of English origin, with a spiritual text that catered to the prevailing culture of the church at the time. The stimulating illuminations are not just decorative, as many people were illiterate or semi-literate in England at the time. All true Latin Bestiaries take their origin from the Greek work Physiologus, though the word can colloquially be used with less specificity.
^Clark, Willene B. (2006). A medieval book of beasts: the second-family bestiary: commentary, art, text and translation. Woodbridge: Boydell. ISBN 978-0-85115-682-8. OCLC 70399940.
The AshmoleBestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century. Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they...
Currently, the Aberdeen Bestiary resides in the Aberdeen University Library in Scotland. The Aberdeen Bestiary and the AshmoleBestiary are considered by Xenia...
A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in...
Ashmole may refer to: AshmoleBestiary Ashmolean Museum Bernard Ashmole Elias Ashmole Philip Ashmole William Ashmole Museum of the History of Science,...
This is a list of medieval bestiaries. The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James and revised by Florence...
its Digital Bodleian service. The Ashmole Manuscripts (including the AshmoleBestiary), collected by Elias Ashmole The Carte Manuscripts, collected by...
medieval bestiaries, where a satyr is often shown dressed in an animal skin, carrying a club and a serpent. In the Aberdeen Bestiary, the AshmoleBestiary, and...
MS 254 (Bestiary) London, British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII (Rochester Bestiary) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1511 (AshmoleBestiary) Bordeaux...
medieval bestiaries some of which contained entries on the manticore. Manticores in bestiaries The manticore has been included in some medieval bestiaries, with...
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