Medieval Bestiaries in the Yahoo! Directory

Bestiaro Bestiary
Online exhibit featuring images from French bestiaries of the Middle Ages. From the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
expositions.bnf.fr/bestiaire/expo
The Aberdeen Bestiary
Online versions of the Physiologus with images, translations, and editorial comments.
www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary
The Medieval Bestiary
Records some of the animal stories and depictions that were immensely popular throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East during the Middle Ages.
www.bestiary.ca
Bestiary - Wikipedia
Hyperlinked article about the medieval book that has short descriptions of various real or imaginary animals, birds, and even rocks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary
Medieval Bestiaries and the Birth of Zoology
Traces zoological writing from a 5th-century manuscript known as the Physiologus to illustrated bestiary manuscripts to modern treatises.
www.antlionpit.com/aura.html
Bestiaries - Catholic Encyclopedia
Information about medieval bestiaries, books of real and mythical animals whose characteristics were figuratively treated as religious symbols of Christ, the devil, the virtues and vices.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/02529b.htm
The Physiologus - Wikipedia
Medieval poetical literature which described animals, birds, fantastic creatures, stones, and plants, together with the moral and symbolic qualities of the animals.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physiologus
Bestiary - Encyclopedia Mythica
Collection of old European stories, each based on a description of certain qualities of an animal, plant, or even stone.
www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary
Middle English Physiologus: A Critical Translation and Commentary (PDF)
A modern translation of the Middle English Physiologus.
scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04252001-152041/unrestricted/ETDDra...
Red Winged Lion: An Illuminated Page in the Style of Aberdeen
Explains how bestiaries evolved as a literary form during the Middle Ages and describes the making of a modern bestiary page.
denevell_books.home.insightbb.com/red_winged_lion.htm
Bestiary - The Getty
Covers the use and popularity of bestiaries in medieval Europe and provides illustrations from Hugo de Fouilloy's c. 1270 manuscript. From the Getty Museum.
www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1696
Bestiaries
Describes the development of bestiaries during the Middle Ages and explains the symbolism of different animals.
medievalwriting.50megs.com/word/bestiary.htm
Bestiary: A Book of Beasts
Text of T. H. White's English translation of a 12th century bestiary. From the University of Wisconsin.
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?id=HistSciTec...
Royal Danish Library: Bestiarius GKS 1633
Online version of a 15th century bestiary illustrated with more than 100 drawings.
www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks1633
Royal Danish Library: Philippe de Thaon's Bestiary, GKS 3466
Online version of de Thaon's c. 1300 guide to animals and their characteristics.
www.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks3466
The History of Animals by Aristotle
Aristotle's zoological natural history book, Historia Animalium, which describes various species and their anatomies including fish, shellfish, and other animals. Translation by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/history
Sancti Epiphanii ad Physiologus / Saint Epiphianius on the Physiologus
Online facsimile of a 1588 edition of the Physiologus, a set of moralized animal stories which were the basis of the medieval bestiary. From the University of Victoria.
gateway.uvic.ca/spcoll/physiologum
What Is a Bestiary?
Traces the origins of bestiary, various families of bestiary text, and cycles.
www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/what.hti
British Library: Harley 4751
Offers a bibliographic description and images from a 13th century bestiary.
prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/record.asp?MSID=8797&CollID=8