L'Acerba etas

Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais, long version [Bestiary, France, Late 13th century]

Book of Hours, England, c. 1300

Miscellany, 15th century

Digital facsimiles

Digital Walters Art Museum

Digital facsimiles

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De universo libri I-XI [Encyclopedia, 9th-10th century]

Bestiary, early 14th century

L'Acerba [Encyclopedia, Italy, 1400-1450]

Aesop's Fables [Single-author, Italy, 1450-1500]

Rothschild Canticles [Miscellany, Flander of the Rhineland, ca. 1300]

Bestiaire d'amour [Miscellany, 14th century]

Miscellany, Italy, 1551-1600

Miscellany, 1451-1550

Miscellany, 13th century

Liber de imagine mundi / Physiologus [Miscellany, St. Emmeram (?), 1200-1225]

Greek Physiologus [Miscellany, 14th century]

MS E. 24 inf. Pliny: Historia naturalis Single-author   Italy, ca. 1389

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Saint Petersburg Bestiary [Bestiary, England, 1170-1185]

Miscellany, North France, 13th century

Bestiary, Canterbury, Late 12th century

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Miscellany

Bestiary

Miscellany

Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy / Bestiary [Bestiary, France (Paris), ca. 1250]

Miscellany

Miscellany

Physiologus [Miscellany, Saint-Laurent, Liège, 11th century]

Physiologus [Miscellany, France/Belgium, 901-1450]

Staatsbibliothek

Miscellany,

Bestiaire d'amour [Miscellany, France, ca. 1386-1416]

Miscellany

Miscellany

Etymologies [Encyclopedia, Northern France, 8th century]

Bestiaire

Aberdeen Bestiary [Bestiary, England, c 1200]

Miscellany, England, c 1110-30

Bestiary, England (?), 1st half 13th century

Bestiary, France (?), 13th-14th century

Encyclopedia

Miscellany

Miscellany

L'Acerba Eta [Miscellany, Florence, 1456]

Miscellany, England, 13th-14th century

Bestiary, England, 13th-14th century

Bestiaire d'amour [Bestiary, France (Paris), ca. 1260]

Bestiaire of Guillaume le Clerc [Miscellany, England, 13th-14th century]

Miscellany, England, 12th, 14th century

Etymologiae [Encyclopedia, Southern France or Catalonia, 13th century]

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No beast list available.

None known

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Ms. 10074

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MS 851 Untitled Miscellany   France or England, 13th century, 2nd half

MS 189 Moralitates de avibus Aviary   England, Late 12th century

MS 77 Albertus Magnus, De animalibus Single-author   Germany, 15 century, 2nd half

MS 013 Moralitates de avibus, piscibus & lapidibus Aviary   Italy, 14th century, 2nd half

Marston MS 119 Untitled Miscellany   Northern Italy, 13th century, 2nd half

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Westminster Abbey Bestiary [Bestiary, England, c 1275-1300]

Pliny Historia naturalis [Encyclopedia, Bologna, ca. 1300]

De proprietatibus rerum [Encyclopedia, 14th century]

Miscellany, France or Flanders, ca. 1250

Li livres dou tresor [Encyclopedia, France (Picardy), 1300-1325]

Royal MS 15 E. ii-iii Des Proprietez des Choses Single-author   Flemish (Bruges), 1482

Liber de natura rerum [Miscellany, Bayern, Germany, 1424]

Aviarium / Bestiary [Bestiary, France, ca. 1240]

Bestiary, Paris, 13th century

Bestiaire d'amour [Miscellany, 14th century]

Liber de naturis rerum visibilium [Encyclopedia, late 13th century]

Miscellany, 1143-1147

Miscellany, Bavaria/Germany, 9th - 10th century

The Viennese Tacuinum [Herbal, Italy?, Before 1405]

Miscellany, Salzburg (?), 1200-1233

Bestiaire d'amour [Miscellany, France, 1325-1350]

Etymologies [Encyclopedia, Göttweig, 12th century]

Bestiary, 13th century

Miscellany, Austria, 1300-1310

National Library of Russia

Ms 742

Greek Physiologus [Miscellany]

Greek Physiologus [Bestiary, 17th century]

Greek Physiologus

Miscellany, Germany/Bavaria, 13th century

MS. Barocci 50

Miscellany, Byzantine (Constantinople), 10th century

Miscellany, 9th century

Manuscripts : Bartholomaeus Anglicus

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None known

None known

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Physiologus

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Cod. germ. 4259/79

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R.14.9

90ar

90ar

93r

93r

93r

93r

93v

93v

Hydrus

Hydrus

Dog

Dog

90av

90av

90av

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90av

90av

MS 254

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HM 1076 Etymologiae Single-author   England, 2nd half 13th century

None known

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couldn't be found

Ms Fatih 4174

Bodleian Library Laud Or. 132

suppl. pers. 2051

BnF suppl. pers. 1781

Leipzig University Library, DC 2

Berlin State Library, or. fol.81

Additional description

Los anales de las Guerras Térfidas, por Jane Clare Jones

Imagen tomada de: Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Med. Palat. 220, c. 224v

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inscriptions

The Phoenicians never developed an alphabet.

This essay coalesced during the course of my research. Though I would find Mycenaean, Classical Greek, Byzantine, or even palaeolithic European precedents for ideas that appeared at much later dates in the Near East, and which later came to appear as far away as in India, the origin of these ideas would instead come to be attributed to the Near East. This essay is a partial attempt at elucidating the reasoning behind this systematic re-attribution which as has become obvious is the perpetration of a grand historical fraud.

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be claimed to have served as the inspiration for Mycenaean representational art.

ears of the quadrupedal Anzu

The griffin is defined in the Wikipedia (current at the time of writing, 2020) as “a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet”. The Wikipedia adds, “the lion was traditionally considered king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds”. The Elamite griffin fits Wikipedia description—the griffins that appeared in the Aegean a millennium after the Elamite griffin had disappeared, do not.

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MS M.81 The Worksop Bestiary Bestiary   England, c 1185

January

Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 The Exeter Book Miscellany   England, 10th century

Facsimiles

T. H. White   The Book of Beasts, Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1954)   Web site/resource link

The Book of Beasts, Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1954)  Web site/resource link [Book]

Samuel A. Ives, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt An English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval Illumination (New York: H. P. Kraus, 1942; Series: Rare Books Monagraphs 1) [Book]   An anlysis (by Ives) of a thirteenth century manuscript, owned (in 1942) by H. P. Kraus ("Kraus Bestiary"), then by Philip Hofer ("Hofer Bestiary"), and now Houghton Library MS Typ 101, containing illustrated Physiologus texts. These are identified as the Dicta Chrysostomi and the De Bestiis of Hugo of Folieto. The text is compared to other manuscript copies of the Physiologus (Carmody B and Y, the Greek text edited by Sbordone, the Dicta Chrysostomi edited by Heider). This is followed by commentary and analysis (by Lehmann-Haupt) of the illustrations, with the conclusion that this manuscript was intended to be used as a model book. 45 pp., 8 pages of black and white photographic plates of images from the manuscript.Language: EnglishLCCN: 42019790; LC: Z6617.B4 I8  

The Book of Beasts, Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1954)   Web site/resource link [Book]

Samuel A. Ives, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt   An English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval Illumination (New York: H. P. Kraus, 1942; Series: Rare Books Monagraphs 1)  [Book]

The Book of Beasts, Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century T. H. White

Samuel A. Ives, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt   An English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval Illumination (New York: H. P. Kraus, 1942; Series: Rare Books Monagraphs 1) 

 Ives & Lehmann-Haupt 1942

Samuel A. Ives, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt   An English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval Illumination (New York: H. P. Kraus, 1942; Series: Rare Books Monagraphs 1) 

An English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval Illumination

De animalibus

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Huntington

Albertus Magnus, James J. Scanlan, trans.   Man and the Beasts (de Animalibus, Books 22-26) (New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (SUNY), 1987; Series: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Volume 47) 

 Scanlan (trans.), 1987

Man and the Beasts