The Birth of the Bestiaries

Organizing the natural world.
Check out the great sources mentioned in this episode using these links! Full citations are listed in the Bibliography.

Aberdeen Bestiary via University of Aberdeen. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

The Ashmole Bestiary via Digital Bodleian. https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faeff7fb-f8a7-44b5-95ed-cff9a9ffd198/surfaces/bb83ca90-bbe4-45e8-be56-36a649d4cacf/

Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia via Tufts University. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0978.phi001.perseus-eng1:1.dedication

Aristotle's Historia Animalium via Internet Classics Archive (MIT). Accessed January 29, 2021. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.1.i.html

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Bibliography:
Aberdeen Bestiary. University of Aberdeen. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/.

Aristotle. The History of Animals. Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.1.i.html.

"Burgerbibliothek Bern, Codex Bongarsianus 318 (The Bern Physiologus)". Manuscript: Codex Bongarsianus 318. The Medieval Bestiary. January 15, 2011. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manu1345.htm.

Cynewulf. The Old English Elene, Phœnix, and Physiologus. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 1919.

"Differences Between Parchment, Vellum and Paper". National Archives. August 15, 2016. Accessed January 29, 2021. https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/paper-vellum.html.

The Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Bestiary". Encyclopaedia Britannica. April 18, 2013. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/art/bestiary-medieval-literary-genre.

Mark, Joshua J. "Illuminated Manuscripts". Ancient History Encyclopedia. March 6, 2018. Accessed January 29, 2021. https://www.ancient.eu/Illuminated_Manuscripts/.

"MS. Ashmole 1511". Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_290.

Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Translated and edited by John Bostoke, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., Ed. 1855. Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0978.phi001.perseus-eng1:1.dedication.

Ross, Dr. Nancy. "The Bestiary". Khan Academy. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/judaism-christianity-in-art/christianity-art/a/the-bestiary.

Sancti Ephiphanii Ad Physiologum. Christopher Plantin Antwerp: 1588. University of Victoria, McPherson Library. Accessed February 1, 2021. http://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/index.html.

Woodruff, Helen. "The Physiologus of Bern: A Survival of Alexandrian Style in a Ninth Century Manuscript." The Art Bulletin 12, no. 3 (1930): 226-53. Accessed January 31, 2021.