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...