Bestiaries in languages other than Latin or French are uncommon. They are generally based on the Physiologus with additions from other sources.
Italian Versions
The Italian bestiaries combine a vernacular Italian (or Tuscan) translation of the Physiologus with a variety of new materials, including fables. They first appear in the fourteenth century. In some manuscripts the text is also known as the Libro della natura degli animali or the Tuscan Bestiary.
Tuscan Bestiary
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig.M.VI.117 [Ch]
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig.M.VI.137 [Ch, GM, Mk]
Biblioteca Civica di Padova, CM 106 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, I.II.4 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Cors. 44.G.27 [Ch, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb.299 [Ch]
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb.520 [Ch]
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb.649 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.90.inf.47 [Ch, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, BNCF, II.VIII.33 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, XII.E.11 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 1357 P.III.4 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 1475 [Ch]
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 2183 [CM, GW]
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 2260 R.IV 4 [Ch, GM, GW, Mk]
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 2281 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ital. 450 [Ch, CM, GM, GW, Mk]
Natura degli animali
There are similarities to the <#~P101664 Tuscan Bestiary~>, but most scholars do not include it in that genre.
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Cod. 2183 [CM, GW]
Bestiario moralizzato di Gubbio
A bestiary in verse, in the Umbrian dialect of Italian. There 64 rhymed sonnets. It does not appear to be related to any of the other Italian bestiaries.
Catalan Versions
The Catalan Bestiary manuscripts are in the Catalan language, and are translated copies of the Tuscan bestiary. They date from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Arxiu Històric de Girona, AHG Gi-01-260/AHG Gi-05-120 [CM, MP, S]
Arxiu i Biblioteca Episcopal de Vic, ms. 228 [CM, MP, S]
Arxiu i Biblioteca Episcopal de Vic, ms. 229 [CM, MP, S]
Biblioteca de Catalunya, MS 87 [CM, MP, S]
Biblioteca de Catalunya, MS 310/5 [CM, MP, S]
Biblioteca Universitària de Barcelona, MS 75 [CM, MP, S]
Biblioteca Universitària de Barcelona, MS 82 [CM, MP, S]
