Bestiary, being an English version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in facsimile by Translated and introduced by Richard Barber - 1992

London England: The Folio Society, 1992. Hardback. Bestiary. Cream decorative boards, blue cloth with gilt lettering. In a very good slip case. Being an English Versian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M. S. Bodley 764. With All the Original Miniatures Reproduced in Facsimile. The Bestiary, or Book of Beasts, offers us a unique insight into the medieval mind. If we are to begin to understand it, we must lay aside all the mental attitudes we have accumulated from writers and thinkers since the Renaissance, and abandon the ideas on which modern science is founded. For the bestiary is an account of the natural world, which, although it goes back to those same Greek philosophers from whom our scientific concepts ultimately derive, looks at nature in a very different light. Illustrated. 205 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic… Read More