An Italian (Tuscan) bestiary. Also known as the Libro della natuara degli animali.

This Tuscan Bestiary manuscript is designated R1.

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

Written in a more recent hand “Trattato delle Virtü, ovvero della Natura degli Animali" labeled Bestiarius and subsequently about it fables. The beginning reads: "Questo e illibro nomato virtu delli alimali ne quali tratta lautore per piu similitudini di vicij alle virtu. ne quali cinsengniano come noi dobbiamo vivere." ... this is followed by 61 chapters, counting the article from the "four creatures" as one and likewise the last (61st) section “della natura e modo de pesi", which contains general remarks on fishes and (after a gap) contains brief information about individual aquatic animals, in which there are now and then references to those in earlier chapters given more detailed representations of the same animals .... On the Bestiarius, which is far richer than [manuscript] P ... 16 fables follow without any particular general title.

Additional Descriptions

Additional description (page 77-78)

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)