Produced: England (?), 1st half 13th century

Language: Latin

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Media: Parchment
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Folios: 15  Height: 26.7 cm   Width: 19.4 cm

Manuscript type: Bestiary

Location: Bodleian Library (University of Oxford), Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Family: First; B-Is

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An illustrated bestiary, partly based on the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville.

Begins (rubric): 'De natura leonis, bestiarum seu animaliam regis. (text): Etenim Iacob benedicens ... Physiologus dicit tres res.' Ends with a chapter on the wolf (de lupo rapaci): 'Cerberus nostro gaudens iteritu.'

 McCulloch (p.29) notes that the manuscript "adds [a] chapter on Lupus after Mermecolion".

Bodleian Summary Catalogue number 21741.

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