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Ashmole Bestiary; folio 21r: Monoceros and bear

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.

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History

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Similarities to Other Manuscripts

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ a b Muratova, Xenia (1989). "Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries". In Clark, Willene B.; McMunn, Meradith T. (eds.). Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 53–63. ISBN 0-8122-8147-0.
  2. ^ a b James, M. R. (1928). The Bestiary. Oxford: Roxburghe Club. pp. 14ff., 55–59.

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.

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