The Grand Medieval Bestiary (Dragonet Edition): Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts

Now in an affordable edition, a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it

As the 587 colorful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant—and delightful—presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries—the compendiums of animal fact and fable that were exceedingly popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—but in every sort of manuscript, sacred and profane, from the Gospels to the R...