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The "H" versions, [1] late 13th-century, which in addition to a base Physiologus text, adds and arranges the content according to the "H" text or Book II of De bestiis et aliis rebus of Hugues de Fouilloy (olim of Pseudo-Hugo de St. Victor). [2] [3] Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College 100; Chalon-sur-Saône, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 14
Ashmole Bestiary; folio 21r: Monoceros and bear. The Ashmole Bestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century.Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they were studied and categorized into families by M.R. James in 1928. [1]
"The Leopard" from the 13th-century bestiary known as the "Rochester Bestiary" The Peridexion Tree A bestiary ( Latin : bestiarium vocabulum ) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world , bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks.
Oct. 4 is World Animal Day, so we want to introduce you to the official animals of Texas. ... Developed in Texas in the mid-19th century as a working dog for herding, hunting and tracking, the ...
13.3 13th century. 13.4 14th century. ... as well as bringing various species of animals and plants across the Atlantic ... Texas and reverses the city's previously ...
Fossilized skeleton of the Permian primitive four-limbed animal Seymouria †Seymouria – type locality for genus †Seymouria baylorensis – type locality for species †Shouchangoceras †Sigillaria †Sigillaria brardii †Slaugenhopia – type locality for genus; Solemya – tentative report †Solenochilus †Solenopora †Spermatodus
This was the last major animal to be tamed as a source of milk, meat, power, and leather in the Old World. Lascaux aurochs, Stone Age [2] 3500 BC. Sumerian animal-drawn wheeled vehicles and plows were developed in Mesopotamia, the region called the "Fertile Crescent." Irrigation was probably done using animal power.
This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] Recently extinct animals in the West Indies and Hawaii are in their own respective lists.