Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift Ms. Ashmole 1511--Bestiarium
Subtitle: aus dem Besitz der Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Contributors: Bodleian Library.
Series: Volumen LXXVI der Reihe Codices selecti; Codices selecti phototypice impressi ;; v. 76.
Publisher: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Graz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Bestiaries.; Animals -- Folklore -- Early works to 1800.; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- Oxford -- Facsimiles.
Other titles: Liber de naturis bestiarum.; Bestiarium.
Notes: Title mounted on inside of lower cover.
Text in Latin. Incipit (p. [21]): Incipit liber de naturis bestiarum. The preceding pages contain the story of creation from Genesis (Genesis I, 1-28; I, 31-II, 2) and a section (beginning: Omnib[us] animantib[us] Adam p[ri]mus uocabula indidit) from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (XII, 1-8).
M.R. James places Ms. Asmole 1511 with the 12th cent. family of bestiaries which are much-expanded classified rearrangements of the 4th cent. Latin Physiologus. Cf. The bestiary / edited by M.R. James. 1928. p. 13ff.
Issued in a slipcase with title: Bestiarium : Oxford Ashmole 1511 : Faksimile. Book has spine title reading the same, without "Faksimile."
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