Produced: France, Mid 13th century

Language: French

Author: Guillaume le Clerc
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Media: Vellum
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Folios: 74  Height: 22.5 cm   Width: 14.5 cm

Manuscript type: Miscellany

Location: British Library, London, England, United Kingdom

Family: n/a

The bestiary is on folia 31r to 58v.

"This is one of the finest of over twenty versions of Guillaume's bestiary which survive... The rhyming couplets are written in double columns, illustrated with 34 framed pen-and-ink drawings..." -  Payne, p.16

"Miscellanies in prose and verse, among which are... Li bestiaire, a poem, by Guillaume, clerc de Normandie..." - British Library

Printed editions:  Druce, 1936 /  Reinsch, 1973