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Bestiary

noun
1.
A medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals.





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"Bestiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... that famous "Somme des Vices et des Vertus," composed by Brother Lorens in 1279, for Philip III. of France, a copy of which, chained to a pillar of the church of the Innocents, remained open for the convenience of the faithful[343]; (a bestiary in verse, thirteenth century), devotional writings on the Virgin, legends of the Cross, visions of heaven and hell[344]; a Courier of the world, "Cursor Mundi," in verse,[345] containing the history of the ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand


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