Liber bestiarum : MS Bodley 764

Author(s)

• Bodleian Library. Bodley 764
• De Hamel, Christopher
• Barber, Richard
• Bodleian Library

Bibliographic Information

Liber bestiarum : MS Bodley 764

commentary by Christopher de Hamel ; followed by a translation by Richard Barber

Folio Society, 2008

• [main]
• commentary

Other Title

Liber bestiarum : translation and commentary

Note

Title from commentary

Facsimile in Latin, Commentary in English

Full facsimile reproduction of a 13th century illuminated manuscript, a bestiary, created in England, perhaps in Salisbury, possibly commissed by Roger de Mohaut

"This edition has been hand bound for members of The Folio Society by Brian Settle of Ludlow Bookbinders in full Nigerian goatskin leather over bevelled boards, blocked with a design by David Eccles. The edition is limited to 1980 numbered copies and 20 lettered copies which are not for sale"--Colophon of facsimile

Commentary includes bibliograpical references

Details

• NCID: BA90177441
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: lat
• Text Language Code: lateng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 137 [i.e. 274] p.
• Size: 31 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 commentary (173 p. ; 31 cm.)
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Bodley 764
  • LCSH : Animals -- Folklore -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Bestiaries -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic -- England
  • LCSH : Illumination of books and manuscripts, English -- 13th century
  • LCSH : Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- Oxford -- Facsimiles