The Birth of the Bestiaries
02/04/21 • 17 min
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
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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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.
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
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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.
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Stormy nights and spectral frights!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Bibliography:
Basford, Trish. "The Wild Hunt: Furious Hosts & Shadow Processions". Hurstwic. January 10, 2018. Accessed January 25, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf38nz5e79g.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Herne the Hunter". Encyclopaedia Britannica. May 14, 2007. Accessed January 25, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Herne-the-Hunter.
Guerber, H. A. Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas. London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1908.
Hardwick, Charles. Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore. Manchester: A. Ireland & Company, 1872.
Henderson, William. Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. London: Longman, Green, and Company, 1866.
Littell's Living Age. Edited by Eliakim Littell. Boston: Littell and Company, 1880.
Mellenthin, Jessica and Susan O. Shapiro. Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology. Accessed January 25, 2021.https://press.rebus.community/mythologyunbound/chapter/three-types-of-myth/.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Edited by J. G. Lockhart. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841.
"What causes the sound of thunder?" Library of Congress. Accessed on January 25, 2021. https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/meteorology-climatology/item/what-causes-the-sound-of-thunder/#:~:text=Answer,path%20of%20a%20lightning%20bolt.&text=However%2C%20the%20grumbles%20and%20growls,air%20surrounding%20the%20lightning%20bolt.
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Three Greek myths of tragic love.
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Forest Walk" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Bibliography:
Boeckmann, Catherine. "Growing Hyacinth and Muscari." The Old Farmer's Almanac. Accessed February 7, 2021. https://www.almanac.com/plant/growing-hyacinth-muscari#.
Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch's Mythology. Avenel Books: New York, 1979.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Translated by Charles Martin. W. W. Norton and Company: New York, 2004.
Ryback, Ralph M.D. "All About Love." Psychology Today. February 14, 2017. Accessed February 7, 2021. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201702/all-about-love.
"Ursa Major Constellation" and "Ursa Minor Constellation. Constellation Guide. Accessed February 7, 2021. https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/.
Introductory Quotations:
Before Orpheus and Eurydice - William Shakespeare
Before Apollo and Hyacinthus - Ovid
Before Callisto and Arcas - J. R. Lowell
Scholar Minor - The Birth of the Bestiaries
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Hi there! This is Scholar Minor, a podcast about myth, magic, and occasional miscellany.
My name is Ursula. I'm your host and fellow learning enthusiast.
Welcome back, everyone! Thank you all so much for listening, and I hope you are all staying safe and healthy.
As I'm taking care of the final touches before this episode airs, one of my cats is napping sweetly on my lap. This peaceful scene is a far cry from five minutes ago - he was tearing around the house at full speed, perha
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