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 "The Leopard" from the 13th-century bestiary entitled "Rochester Bestiary." |
A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning. For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life with its own blood, was a living representation of Jesus. The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.
- Related: Allegory in the Middle Ages
| The Bestiary: The Book of Beasts The Bestiary: The Book of Beasts digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Bestiary - Web |
| The Medieval Bestiary The Medieval Bestiary bestiary.ca - Web |
| The Bestiaire of Philippe de Thaon The Bestiaire of Philippe de Thaon www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks3466/index.htm - Web |
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| The Bestiary of Anne Walshe The Bestiary of Anne Walshe www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks1633/index.htm - Web |
| The Aberdeen Bestiary The Aberdeen Bestiary www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti - Web |
| Exhibition (in English, but French version is full... Exhibition (in English, but French version is fuller) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France expositions.bnf.fr/bestiaire/expo/index.htm - Web |
| Christian Symbolology Christian Symbolology www.christiansymbols.net/index.php - Web |
| Bestiairy - Monsters & Fabulous Creatures of Greek... Bestiairy - Monsters & Fabulous Creatures of Greek Myth & Legend with pictures www.theoi.com/Bestiary.html - Web |
