APPENDIX
Database
No.
Date Shelf mark Bestiary Division Language Name Place of origin Authors Owners 1
Beginning 13th C MS Ashmole 1511 Second Family Latin The Ashmole Bestiary Peterborough Hugh of Fouilloy and Isidore de Seville 2
Late 12th C MS Ashmole 1462 n/a Latin De medicina ex animalibus England, northern Sextus Placitus
3
Middle 13th C MS Bodley 533 Second Family Latin England
4 13th C, second quarter
(1225-1250) MS Bodley 602 First Family, B-Isidore Latin St. Albans Hugh of Fouilloy
5 13th C, second quarter
(1225-1250) MS Bodley 764 Second Family Latin England Hugh of Fouilloy & Gerald of Wales
6
Beginning 13th C MS Bodley 912 Guilaume le clerc French Bestiaire moralisé England Guillaume le Clerc
7
Late 11th C MS Bodley 130 n/a Latin Bodley Herbal and Bestiary England, Bury St. Edmonds Ps. -Apuleius 8
13 14th C MS Douce 151 Second Family Latin England/France Hugh of Fouilloy, written in court hand
9
End 13th C MS Douce 88
Second Family (B),
Third Family (E) Latin England Hugh of Fouilloy
10
1250 MS Douce 132 Guilaume le clerc French Bestiaire of Guillaume le Clerc England Guillaume le Clerc Part of an old library in a house at Edwardstone near Sudbury, now belonging to Mr Waring (13th century note on f. 82v) 11
1290-1310 MS Douce 366 n/a Latin The Ormesby Psalter East-Anglia
12
1300-1325 MS Douce 308 Richard de Fournival French Bestiaire d'amour France, Lorraine (Metz) Richard de Fournival 13
1250-1275 MS Douce 167 First Family, B-Isidore Latin England Isidore de Seville & Physiologus Sharpe of Coventry, from whom Douce obtained the volume by exchange
14
900-950 MS Barocci 50 n/a Greek Physiologus Byzantine, Constantinople Musaeus, Homer, Philostratus, etc.
15
End 13th C MS E Mus. 136 Third Family Latin De bestiis England Hugh of Fouilloy
16
1110-1130 MS Laud Misc. 247 First Family, B-Isidore Latin England Physiologus & Isidore de Seville
17
1300 MS Lyell 71 n/a Latin Italy, north Hugh of Fouilloy
18
1285 Français 412 Richard de Fournival French
Bestiaire d'amour and response du bestiaire
19
1325-1350 Français 15213 Richard de Fournival French Besiaire d'amour, Aesop's Fables Paris
Richard de Fournival & Alexander Neckum
Illustrator: Richard de Montbaston Charles V of France (1338-1380), Charles VI (1368-1422) 20
Early 13th C Lat. 2495 Hugh of Fouilloy Latin France Hugh of Fouilloy
21
1260 Lat. 8865 n/a Latin Liber Floridus Northern France/Flanders Lambert of Saint Omber
22
1250-1260 Lat. 14429 First Family, H Latin North France Multiple scribes
23
Mid 14th C Lat. 16169 n/a Latin De animalibus Paris Albertus Magnus
24
13th C Français 3516 Pierre de Beauvais French Bestiaire France Pierre de Beauvais
25
1456 Ms. Canon. Ital. 38 n/a Italian Florence Cecco d'Ascoli - Bestiary in rhyme - fol. 060v.
26
1200 Aberdeen Univ. Lib. MS 24 Second Family Latin Aberdeen Bestiary England? Isidore de Seville Recorded history starts in 1542 (Old Royal Library)
27
1150-1170 CCCC MS 22 First Family, B-Isidore Latin England (North, Durham?) Isidore de Seville
28
1300-1310 CCCC MS 53 Second Family
Latin &
Anglo-Norman Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary Peterborough Oliver de Wisset parson of the church of Wakefield /Hugh de Stukeley
29
1250-1270 ljs023 n/a Latin Liber de Natura Rerum Northern France/Flanders Thomas de Cantimpré Icelandic private collection - sold by the Gorman collection (1994) accuired from Sam Fogg (1995) 30
13th C ljs184 n/a Latin Etymologiae Southern France Isidore de Seville
Monastery of Poblet in Catalonia, Spain. Harrison Horblit collections. H.P. Kraus. John Stanitz
31
1200 AM 673a 4o n/a Old Icelandic Physiologus Iceland (Westfjord districts)
32
1350-1400 Cgm 38 n/a German Das Buch der Natur Germany Konrad vond Megenberg Familie Preckendorffer(1600)
33
1250-1275 Cod. Germ. 4259/79 n/a Dutch ? Includes fragments by Jacob van Maerlant
34
1350-1400 Beinecke MS 013 n/a Latin
moralitates de avibus,
piscibus & lapidibus Italy, north Hugh of Fouilloy 35
1450-1500 Beinecke MS 77 n/a Latin de animalibus Germany Albertus Magnus Sir Thomas Phillipps (early provenance unknown), acquired from Goldschmidt's by David Wagstaff, gift of Mr and Mrs David Wagstaff in 1949. 36
Late 12th C Beinecke MS 189 n/a Latin Moralitates de avibus England Hugh of Fouilloy Sir Thomas Phillipps (early provenance unknown)
37
1225-1250 Egerton MS 613 Guilaume le clerc French Bestiaire England Guillaume le Clerc
38
1389 MS E. 24 inf. n/a Latin Historia naturalis Italy
Author: Pliny the Elder Illustrator: Fra Pietro de Pavia
Scribe: Armandus de Alemannia Pasquino Capelli secretary to Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan 39
13th C Reg. lat. 1682 Guilaume le clerc French Bestiaire France Guillaume le Clerc
40
41
1410 MSS 1.1.24-1.1.25 n/a Latin Historia naturalis France Pliny the Elder Commissioned around 1410 by bibliophile Jean, duc de Berry, brother of Charles V, King of France 42
10th C MS. Auct. T. 2. 23 / fol. 151r n/a Latin France, Tours Physiologus
43
Before 1309 Additional MS 8785 n/a Latin/Italian De Proprietatibus Rerum Italy (Mantua) Bartholomaeus Anglicus Italian translation by Vivaldo del Belcalzer 44
13th C
Additional MS
11390 n/a Dutch der Naturen Bloeme ? Jacob van Maerlant
45
1284-1316 Additional MS 24686 n/a Latin Alphonso Psalter England (London) script: Textualis Quadrata
Commissioned (1284) to celebrate the proposed marriage of Prince Alphonso, son of King Edward I (England), and Margaret of Holland, aborted by Alphonso's death (aughust 1284).
It was finished at the beginning of the 14th century, possibly for his sister Elizabeth. written in court hand.
46
1410 Additional MS 27944 n/a English On the Properties of things England Bartholomaeus Anglicus John Trevisa's English translation of De proprietatibus rerum
47
Late 13th c Additional MS 28260 Gervaise French Bestiaire France Gervaise
48
1325-1340 Additional MS 42130 n/a Latin The Lutterell Psalter England (Lincoln) Sir Geoffrey Luttrell of Irnham (d. 1345)
49
1260 Additional MS 62925 n/a Latin The Rutland Psalter England Several scribes (but one main hand)
50
1275-1300 Arundel MS 292 n/a Latin, English and French England (Norfolk, Norwich) Henry of Sawtry
51
1150-1175 Harley MS 1585 n/a Latin
Netherlands, (south/Mosan region),or England?) 52
1225-1250 Harley MS 4751 Second Family Latin England (south/ Salisbury)
53
1150-1200 Harley MS 4986 n/a
Latin (glosses: Latin, German,
Greek) Germany Owned in 1513 and lent to the philologist Michael Hummelberg by the German antiquarian and humanist Conrad Peutinger 54
1200-1230 Royal MS 10 A VII Hugh of Fouilloy Latin England (east/Bardney, Lincolnshire) William of Lincoln, Hugh of Fouilloy and others The Benedicine abbey of Saints Peter, Paul en Oswald at Bardney, Lincolnshire. 55
1200-1225
Royal MS 12 C
XIX First, Transitional Latin England (north or central) Isidore de Seville, Imago Mundi John Theyer (bap. 1598), antiquary
56
1225-1250 Royal MS 12 F XIII Second Family Latin and French Rochester Bestiary England (south/east Possibly Rochester)
Includes excerpts of the Pantheologus of Peter of Cornwall
(also known as Peter of Aldgate) The Cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester (14th c) 57
1225-1275 Sloane MS 278 Hugh of Fouilloy Latin
Aviarium, Bestiary,
in the Cita Chrysostomi
form France, north/ South Netherlands Hugh of Fouilloy Archbishop George Neville of York (d. 1476) 58
1225-1275 Sloane MS 3544 Second Family Latin England Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725) book collector
59
1100-1150 Stowe MS 1067 First Family, B-Isidore Latin England Copied by two scribes
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776-1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham
60
1310-1320 Stowe MS 17 n/a Latin Maastricht Hours South Netherlands (Liege: Meuse region)
61
1310-1320 Royal MS 2 B VII First, Transitional Latin, French image captions The Queen Mary Psalter
England (London/ Westminster or East
Anglia) Scribe: Queen Mary Master Isabella of France (b. 1295, d. 1358), queen of England consort of Edward II. Perhaps made for her or Edward II (b. 1284, d.1327) 62
1425-1450 Plimpton MS 263 Bartholomaeus Anglicus English De Proprietatibus rerum England Bartholomaeus Anglicus / scribe: roger motram? 63
1250-1254 Cotton Nero D. i n/a Latin England (St Albans) Matthew Paris
64
1122-1135 Cotton Tiberius C. i n/a Latin England (Peterborough) Isidore de Seville, Pliny the Elder
65
1250-1300 HM 1035 n/a Latin3 De animalibus Southern Italy Aristotle
Written for a member of the family of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily and Naples (1266-1285).
Belonged to Pier Leoni (d. 1492), physician to Lorenzo de Medici. Then sold to the bookdealer W. Voynich (possibly including HM 1035). Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1918 from G.D. Smith.
66
1250-1300 HM 1076 n/a Latin Etymologiae England Isidore de Seville / two scribes
Four coat of arms: gyronny of twelve or and azure (Bassingborne?), thee chevrons gules
(Clare of Hertford and Gloucester?), (Vaux of Gillesland or Fitzwarren?), (Warwick?), Robert Hopkyns hys, Maggs Cat. 356 (1917),
belonged to G. Wells, sale by Anderson (17 feb. 1919) to G.D. Smith, Henry E. Huntington.
67
1460 KB, 72 A 23 n/a Latin Liber Floridus Lille and Ninove Lambert of St. Omer
68
1450-1500 KB, 76 E 4 n/a Dutch Der Naturen Bloeme Flanders or Utrecht Jacob van Maerlant J. Visser of the Hague
69
1350 KB, KA 16 n/a Middle Dutch der Naturen Bloeme Flanders Jacob van Maerlant
70
1450 MMW, 10 B 25 n/a Latin Western France G. Guglielmetti (16th c.), G. de Cananga (17th c.)
71
1500 MS. 161 n/a Middle Scots Deidis of Armorie Scotland Scribe: R. Andersoun
72
1369 Cod. 36 (52) n/a German Das Buch der Natur Austria Konrad von Megenberg
73
13th C MS. 61 Second Family Latin England (York) Text is similar to Ashmole 1511
74
1275-1300 MS 22 Third Family Latin Westminster Abbey Bestiary England Franciscan convent of York
75 1287
Lippische Landesbibliothek,
70 n/a Dutch der Naturen Bloeme Northwest Flanders Jacob van Maerlant
76
1466 MS B. 40 n/a Italian Il fiore di virtù Italy (Florence) scribe: Maestro Martino Curt F. Buhler, 1985
77
1185 MS M.81 First, Transitional Latin The Worksop Bestiary England (Lincoln or York) Exerts from Isidore de Seville
Given in 1187 by Philip, Canon of Lincoln to the Augustinian Priory of Radford, now called Worksop. In the 18th and 19th centuries the manuscript belonged to the collection of the Dukes of Hamilton. In 1883 it was purchased by the Prussian Government and by them resold in London in 1889.
Purchased by William Morris, whose book-plate it bears. and after his death in 1896, bought by Richard Bennett of Manchester. Acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1902 with the other manuscripts of Richard Bennett.
78
1150 MS M.832
First,
Dicta Chrysostomi Latin De naturis bestiarium Austria Pseudo-Joannes Chrysostomus
Benedictine monastery of Gottweig in Austria. Purchased from H.P. Kraus in March 1950, with the help of the Fellows, 1950.
79
1325-1350 MS M.890 Second Family Latin Fountains Abbey Bestiary England (north Yorkshire) Cistercian manuscript from the collection of Sir Sydney Cockerell.
80
81
Late 12th C Csc. 226 Hugh of Fouilloy Latin Heiligenkreuz Aviary Eastern France Hugh of Fouilloy 82
1260 W 258A n/a latin De animalibus Germany Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus - who bequeathed to the library of the 'studium generale' at Cologne before his death. As late as 1483 an inventory of the books in this Dominican cloister included a volume on the nature's of animals in Albert's own hand.
83
1200-1250 MS typ 101 Hugh of Fouilloy Latin de Bestiis, Dicta Chrysostomi Paris Hugh of Fouilloy, copied by at least two scribes
Formerly known ast the Kraus Bestiary when in possession of book and ms dealer H.P. Kraus,
and the Hofer Bestiary when owned by Philip Hofer 84
1270 MS Ludwig XV 3 First Family, B-Isidore Latin Franco-Flemish Hugo de Fouilloy
Sold at Sotheby's (13/6/1977) according to the Lambeth Palace Library, which took possesion
of most the Sion College MSS when the college closed in 1996. 85
