Physiologus : a metrical bestiary of twelve chapters / by Bishop Theobald, printed in Cologne 1492. The author is believed to have been abbot of Monte Cassino, A.D. 1022-1035, and a description of the abbey is appended with illustrations ; translated by Alan Wood Rendell.

  • Theobaldus, Episcopus, active 1025.
Date:
1928
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London : J. & E. Bumpus, ltd., 1928.

Physical description

xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page xv plate (including frontispiece) on 8 leaves : facsimiles ([34] pages), 99, facsimiles ; 21 cm

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Physiologus

Notes

Original title: Phisiologus Theobaldi / Episcopi de naturis duo / decim animalium. [Colophon: The Finit phisiologus Theobaldi ... / Impressus per Henricũ Quentell in sancta ciuitate Coloniensi /]

Contents

Introduction by the Right Reverend Herbert Bury.--Foreword.--Original Latin text [facsim.]--Translation.--Appendix: A. An unpublished moralized bestiary from the Chapter of Fano. (Translation from the Italian article in 'Studia Picena')--Appendix B. Comparison of various Latin versions of the Physiologus: (1) Printed in Cologne, 1492. (2) Codex no. 5 Archives of Fanum. (3) Migne, t. 171, col. 1217-24.

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