The Ashmole Bestiary ( Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511) is a late 12th or early 13th century English illuminated manuscript Bestiary containing a creation story and detailed allegorical descriptions of over 100 animals. Rich colour miniatures of the animals are also included.
The Aberdeen Bestiary ( Aberdeen University Library MS 24) and the Ashmole Bestiary are considered by Xenia Muratova, a professor of art history, to be "the work of different artists belonging to the same artistic milieu." [1] Due to their "striking similarities" they are described by scholars as being "sister manuscripts." [1] [2] The medievalist scholar M. R. James considered the Aberdeen Bestiary ''a replica of Ashmole 1511". [2]
Hugh of Fouilloy's moral treatise on birds, De avibus, is incorporated into the text with 29 full colour illustrations.
Category:13th-century illuminated manuscripts Category:Bestiaries Category:Bodleian Library collection Baxter, R. (1987). A baronial bestiary: heraldic evidence for the patronage of ms Bodley 764. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 50, 196-200.
Clark, W. B. (1989). Bestiarium: Die Texte der Handschrift MS. Ashmole 1511 der Bodleian Library Oxford in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache.
Gransden, A. (1993). Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy. The English Historical Review, 108(428), 705-707.
Anderson, S. (2014). Mirrors and Fears: Humans in the Bestiary (Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University).
Morrison, E., & Grollemond, L. (Eds.). (2019). Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. Getty Publications.
The Ashmole Bestiary ( Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511) is a late 12th or early 13th century English illuminated manuscript Bestiary containing a creation story and detailed allegorical descriptions of over 100 animals. Rich colour miniatures of the animals are also included.
The Aberdeen Bestiary ( Aberdeen University Library MS 24) and the Ashmole Bestiary are considered by Xenia Muratova, a professor of art history, to be "the work of different artists belonging to the same artistic milieu." [1] Due to their "striking similarities" they are described by scholars as being "sister manuscripts." [1] [2] The medievalist scholar M. R. James considered the Aberdeen Bestiary ''a replica of Ashmole 1511". [2]
Hugh of Fouilloy's moral treatise on birds, De avibus, is incorporated into the text with 29 full colour illustrations.
Category:13th-century illuminated manuscripts Category:Bestiaries Category:Bodleian Library collection Baxter, R. (1987). A baronial bestiary: heraldic evidence for the patronage of ms Bodley 764. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 50, 196-200.
Clark, W. B. (1989). Bestiarium: Die Texte der Handschrift MS. Ashmole 1511 der Bodleian Library Oxford in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache.
Gransden, A. (1993). Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy. The English Historical Review, 108(428), 705-707.
Anderson, S. (2014). Mirrors and Fears: Humans in the Bestiary (Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University).
Morrison, E., & Grollemond, L. (Eds.). (2019). Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. Getty Publications.