![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, we possess two illustrated copies from the 9 th or 10 th century containing from twenty-six to thirty-six chapters 3. Our earliest copies of the Latin text date back to around 800 CE, when several manuscripts were produced somewhere in Northern France 2. Around the 4 th or 5 th century the Physiologus was translated into Latin, but again we do not possess an early manuscript of that translation. The original manuscript is not extant, and thus we have no definitive way of judging whether or not the work was illustrated right from the beginning. It is comprised of approximately forty-nine chapters on animals, birds, and precious stones. 4 This is the 10 th -11 th century New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M 397.Ģ The text entitled the Physiologus 1 was written in Greek in Alexandria, at the end of the second or the beginning of the 3 rd century CE. ![]() 3 Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 318 and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 10066-77.2 The earliest manuscript is Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 611.1 Regarding the history of the Physiologus see MCCULLOCH, Florence – Medieval Latin and French Bestia (.).In the latter case, I try to explore the artist’s possible motivations, as well as the reasons for choosing specific motifs. I use the deviations to investigate the relationship between the work of the scribe and that of the artist in the production of bestiary manuscripts in order to determine to what extent medieval artists used already existing illustrations, and, conversely, when and to what extent they were willing or able to deviate from the canon. Summarizing the first ever comprehensive analysis of the entire corpus of Latin bestiaries, this paper examines the patterns of deviations, or exceptions from the rigorous canon governing bestiary illustrations. Medieval bestiaries, which are derived from the ancient Physiologus, comprise a nearly 1800-year-old tradition and have spawned several hundreds of copies throughout Europe, including a smaller subset of Latin bestiaries. In this paper, I investigate the relationship between the text and the images in medieval Latin bestiary manuscripts. ![]()
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