Contains:

• Li Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini is on folio 2r-18v. This is not a complete copy of the text; it appears to be a summary or outline of the chapters. The animal section is reduced to a simple list of a few animal names with no descriptions (folio 7v), including tiger, elephant, lion, chameleon, dragon, basilisk, panther, beaver, ant and possibly others..
• The Tuscan Bestiary, also known as Libro della natura degli animali, is on folio 43r-51v. The manuscript includes only the bestiary; the fables are excluded. This Tuscan Bestiary manuscript is designated L2.

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[Roughly translated from the German of Goldstaub & Wendriner, page 77]

... starts with: “II Tesoretto fatto per Ser Brunetto Latini da Firenze"; followed on fol. 19r by various kinds of poetry and prose, and on folio 43v-52v [by modern foliation 43r-51v] a bestiary in Tuscan ... The Bestiarius treats 40 animals...

Additional Descriptions

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Additional description 2 (column 455-459)
Additional description 3 (page 77)

Editions and Facsimiles

Printed editions

Maximilian Goldstaub, Richard Wendriner, Ein Tosco-Venezianischer Bestiarius (1892)

Milton S. Garver, Kenneth McKenzie, Il Bestiario Toscano: secondo la lexione dei codice di Padua e di Roma (1912)

Davide Checchi, Libro della natura degli animali : bestiario toscano del secolo 13. : edizione critica (2020)

Digital facsimiles

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Biblissima