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Peterborough Bestiary, f. 190v

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Manuscript Information

Title of manuscript: The Peterborough Bestiary
MS call number (and folio selected): MS 53, fol. 190v
Current location: Cambridge, England, Corpus Christi College
Place of creation: England (It is not clear where the text was created though the possible locations include: London, Norwich, Oxford, and Cambridge)
Date of creation: Early 14th Century

Codicology and Paleography

Language(s) of text: Latin, Anglo-Norman
Script: Gothic Quadrata
Abbreviations: Heavily Abbreviated
Textual corrections
            Contemporary: None
            Later: None
Marginal commentary
            Contemporary: Gloss (The word spiritualiter (meaning spiritually) marks the moralizing passages from Physiologus)         
            Later: None
Rubrication: None
Instructions for scribe: None
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: None

Provenance

Marks of ownership: None
Previous owners: Matthew Parker (1504-1575)

Mise en page

Columns: 2
Lines per column: 42
 

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: Gilding is used in the frames, backgrounds, and for capitals.
Small ink initials: There are 3 blue small ink initials on the page.
Pen flourished initials: None
Painted initials: There are two three-line painted initials and two two-line painted initials on the page.
Gold initials: There are two three-line initials and two two-line initials with gilding on the page.
Foliate initials: There are two three-line foliate initials and two two-line foliate initials on the page.
Zoomorphic initials: None
Anthropomorphic initials: There is one two-line anthropomorphic initial on the page.
Historiated initials: None
Monograms: None
Miniatures: There are four miniatures on the page.
Marginal Illustrations: None
Full page illustration: None 

Other Information

This page features depictions and descriptions of an antelope, a unicorn, a lynx, and a griffin. 

Further readings

Baxter, Ron. Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998. Print.

De, Hamel C, and Hans Zotter Das Bestiarium Aus Peterborough: The Peterborough Bestiary, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 53 (fol. 189-210). Stuttgart: Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 2003. Print. 

Rhodes, James Montague. A Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary. England: Oxford University Press, 1921. Print.

Yapp, William Brunsdon. "A New Look at English Bestiaries" Medium Aevum 54, no. 1, 1985. Print.
 

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