The Bestiary

“Northumberland Bestiary.” England. (ca. 1250-1260). Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Institute, Ms. 100.

All images are in the Public Domain and provided courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program.

Translation of the Northumberland Bestiary by Cynthia White:

White, C. (2009). From the Ark to the Pulpit: An Edition and Translation of the “Transitional” Northumberland Bestiary (13th Century). Brepols Publishers.

Sources

Carrillo, A. (2018, May 9). The Foxy Devil of the Medieval Bestiary. Getty Art Stories.

El Massry, S. (2018, May 10). The Laudable Lion of the Medieval Mind. Getty Art Stories.

Kay, S. (2014). Post-human Philology and the Ends of Time in Medieval Bestiaries. Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, 5(4), 473–485.

Morrison, E. (Ed.). (2019). Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Strickland, D. H. (2019, May 21). The Bad Side of the Medieval Bestiary. Getty Art Stories.