Bestiaries and their users in the Middle Ages / Ron Baxter

Stroud London : Sutton Pub. ; Courtauld Institute, 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: Bookplate of W N Paul. Physical description; xiv, 242 pp., illustrations (some color), maps, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Story of a Discourse -- Ch. 2. Narrative in the Physiologus -- Ch. 3. The Latin Bestiary in England -- Ch. 4. Patterns of Consumption -- Ch. 5. Consumption and Narration -- Ch. 6. A Return to the Discourse -- App. 1. Adam's gifts to St. Augustine's, Canterbury -- App. 2. Bestiary entries in medieval book lists -- App. 3. Survival rates of Bestiaries -- App. 4. The timescale of Bestiary production. Subjects; Physiologus. Medieval. Bestiaries History and criticism. Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. Animals, Mythical, in literature. Monastic libraries England History To 1500. Transmission of texts.