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    The Ashmole Bestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century. Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they...
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    A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in...
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    Currently, the Aberdeen Bestiary resides in the Aberdeen University Library in Scotland. The Aberdeen Bestiary and the Ashmole Bestiary are considered by Xenia...
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  • Ashmole may refer to: Ashmole Bestiary Ashmolean Museum Bernard Ashmole Elias Ashmole Philip Ashmole William Ashmole Museum of the History of Science,...
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    the Worksop Bestiary include: St.Petersburg manuscript Q.v.V.1 British Library MS. Royal 12 xix. Ashmole Bestiary MS. 1511 Aberdeen Bestiary MS. 24 Harley...
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    its Digital Bodleian service. The Ashmole Manuscripts (including the Ashmole Bestiary), collected by Elias Ashmole The Carte Manuscripts, collected by...
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    medieval bestiaries, where a satyr is often shown dressed in an animal skin, carrying a club and a serpent. In the Aberdeen Bestiary, the Ashmole Bestiary, and...
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    The monoceros (above) as pictured in the Bodleian Library, Ashmole Bestiary, Folio 21r....
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  • This is a list of medieval bestiaries. The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James and revised by Florence...
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    MS 254 (Bestiary) London, British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII (Rochester Bestiary) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1511 (Ashmole Bestiary) Bordeaux...
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  • displaying illuminated manuscripts were set out". One, the twelfth-century Ashmole Bestiary, open to a folio of a red eagle on a background of gold, so captured...
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    medieval bestiaries some of which contained entries on the manticore. Manticores in bestiaries The manticore has been included in some medieval bestiaries, with...
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