Manuscript

Bibliothèque Municipale de Chartres, BM, MS 63

Codicology

Produced: 10th-11th century
Current Location: Bibliothèque Municipale de Chartres, Chartres, France
Manuscript Type: Bestiary
Bestiary Family: Second
Language: Latin
Folios: 82
Illustrated: No
Dimensions: Height: 31 cm Width: 22.5 cm

Description

This manuscript was destroyed in the bombing during World War 2.

Included a second family bestiary and Isidore of Seville De natura rerum.


[From the catalog description]

Fol. 67v : Bestiaire. « Leo fortis significat Deus fortis, quia Deus verax est ...Item de leone. Leo, cum dormit, oculi ejus vigilant...De laena, de audolaps, de pelicano, de nocticorax, de aquila, de fenice, de uppupa, de vipera, de serpente, de formica, de ono centauro... » etc.

Fol. 70r : Isidori liber de natura rerum. « Domino et filio Sisebuto Isidorus... Dum te prestantem ingenio... De diebus. Dies est solis orientis presentia... transitu ita lucere. Finit liber primus Isidori ».

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