Contains excerpts from three books of the compilation known as the De bestiis et aliis rebus (folio 128v-153v) attributed falsely to Hugh of St Victor. The books are not in their usual order. Title: De bestiis et aliis rebus. The manuscript is illustrated with many colored line drawings.

• Folio 129r-145r : Book I (usually Book III) is a bestiary. Kuhry (page 9) says this is a Second Family bestiary, possibly incomplete. Incipit: Incipit liber primus de bestiis. Bestiam vocabulum proprie conuenit leonibus, pardis et tigribus.
• Folio 145r-152v : Book II (usually Book I) is the De avibus, a moralized book on birds by Hugh of Fouilloy. Incipit: Incipit liber secundus de avibus Avium autem nomen auium est...
• Folio 152v-153v : Book III (usually Book II) is a version of the Physiologus, similar to version B. Incipit: Incipit liber tercius de serpentibus et reptilibus venenosa. Perindens est arbor in India...

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From the description by Hägele:

Numerous translations and adaptations of Physiologus in the following centuries brought a number of changes in the number, scope and sequence of the chapters, but left the basic pattern of chapter structure: animal report - interpretation untouched; This basic pattern remained determining for all bestiaries of the Middle Ages that were based on the Physiologus. This also applies to the De bestiis et aliis rebus, an anonymous 12th century compilation based primarily on the bird book of Hugh of Fouilloy, on Solinus, on the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville and on the Physiologus itself. The incorrect attribution to Hugo of St-Victor is based on a confusion with Hugo of Folieto, whose bird book the first part of De bestiis et aliis rebus forms. This manuscript contains excerpts from the first to third books of De bestiis et aliis rebus.

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