Il Bestiario di Peterborough. Ms. 53. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2004.   A reproduction of the ms codex. 53 of the Parker Library in Cambridge bearing the 12th century Peterborough Bestiary. In the text are distributed more than 100 miniatures framed in gilt or on a gilt background, depicting common, exotic and mythical animals, such as the unicorn, the phoenix, the satyr. They are frequently portrayed in movement according to the Gothic style and are often assigned allegorical and moral meanings in the text. This type of bestiaries were loved and popular in the early Middle Ages, following a tradition that is traced back to the Physiologus of the third century AD, passing through Isidore of Seville and all the medieval variations.   (348 x 236mm). Copy no. 429 of 595. Detailed colour reproduction of the original codex. Leather binding with floral and zoomorphic blindstamped decorations, within plexiglass box. With a volume commentary.

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