1) Animal treatise 2) Book 3) Medieval animal catalogue
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A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the Ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the...
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• (n.) A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.
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(from the article `English literature`) ...and alliterative lines, and it is hardly likely that any of the material they contain actually originated with the king whose wisdom they ...
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literary genre in the European Middle Ages consisting of a collection of stories, each based on a description of certain qualities of an animal, ... [2 related articles]
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In medieval times, a book with stories and illustrations which depicted real and mythical animals or plants to illustrate a (usually Christian) moral. The stories were initially derived from the...
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A medieval treatise listing, naming, and describing various animals and their attributes, often usin
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Bes'ti·a·ry noun [ Late Latin
bestiarium , from Latin
bestiarius pert. to beasts, from
bestia beast: confer French
bestiaire .] A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. « A
bestiary . . . in itse...
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n] - a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
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noun a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
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In medieval times, a book with stories and illustrations which depicted real and mythical animals or plants to illustrate a (usually Christian) moral. The stories were initially derived from the Greek
Physiologus, a collection of 48 such stories, written in Alexandria around the 2nd century. Translations of the
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a collection of moralized fables, esp. as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.
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