Scriptorial of Avranches (Manuscript Museum of Mont Saint-Miche), Ms 28
Codicology
| Produced: | France, 13th century |
| Current Location: | Scriptorial of Avranches (Manuscript Museum of Mont Saint-Miche), Avranches, France |
| Manuscript Type: | Miscellany |
| Physiologus Version: | B |
| Language: | Latin |
| Folios: | 232 |
| Illustrated: | No |
| Media: | Parchment |
| Dimensions: | Height: 24 cm Width: 160 cm |
Description
The De proprietatibus quorundam animalium is on folio 179r-180r.
From Buquet, 2016:
...the second part of the manuscript (dating from the 13th century) [is] a bestiary entitled De proprietatibus quorundam animalium. This is the unique text on animals kept from the library of the Mont Saint-Michel abbey. A short collection of exempla (partly involving animals) is added to the bestiary, and is entitled Ecce similitudines multe de diversis (f. 180-180v). The bestiary and the collection of similitudines seem to form a set which may have had the same use for the compiler. The bestiary is made of about 30 short chapters, from which ten are perfect copies of the B version of the Physiologus; other chapters can be sourced partly in B or Y, but are often summarized and contain original moralizations which differ from other versions of the Latin Physiologus.
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