Bestiario de Westminster
Publisher: Siloé
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Burgos [Spain]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9788493856090
Subjects: Bestiaries; Illustrations; English Illumination of books and manuscripts; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Animals in art; Animals, Mythical, in art; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Iconography; Animals; Mythical Animals; Early works to 1800; Westminster Abbey Bestiary; Westminster Abbey. Chapter Library; Westminster Abbey
Other titles: Westminster Bestiary; Westminster Bestiary; Westminster Abbey Bestiary.
Work titles: Westminster Abbey Bestiary
Notes: Full-color facsimile of a ms. produced between 1275-1300 in England. Ms. is preserved at the Westminster Abbey Library, London, under the shelfmark MS 22.

Edition of 898 copies numbered in Arabic numerals, in blue ink; another 89 copies, numbered in red roman numerals, are withheld from sale.

Issued in clamshell case (34 cm).

Title from colophon pasted to inside back cover.

Ms. in Latin; colophon in Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Isidorean text: "Cum voluntas condito"; "Adam naming the animals"; chapters on wild beasts, birds, fish, snakes and insects; "Rota Fortunae"; Pseudo-Seneca's "De Remediis Fortuitorum" (extracts); "De Septem Mirabilibus Mundi"; "Policraticus" (extracts)