Produced: France or Belgium (Hainaut), ca. 1285

Language: French

Author: Guillaume le Clerc
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Manuscript type: Bestiary

Location: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Family: n/a

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Includes the Bestiaire of Guillaume le Clerc (folios 1r-34v) and a lapidary in verse (beginning on folio 34v). The bestiary illustrations a simple. colored drawings with some gold. The artist did not know what some of the more exotic animals looked like, drawing both the crocodile and the panther with goat-like horns.

a) Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire Divin

b) Marbodus Redonensis, De Lapidibus (Tran. Guillaume le Clerc)

c) Gossuin de Metz, Image du Monde

Additional description

Digital facsimiles: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (partial)