Bestiarium. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ms. Ashmole 1511.

4to: [244] pp.

Full blindst. mod. leather, spine on 5 raised bands, white title label, slipcase. Excellent copy.

Complete colour facsimile edition of this beautiful manuscript dating from the 12th c., South England. Edition limited to 980 numb. copies (n. 387). Ill. with 130 miniatures with backgrounds with gold reproduction, depicting animals, mythical creatures and people. The pages are cut according to the original. Joined: 2 companion vol. providing the French and German translations: Le Bestiaire. Texte intégral traduit en français moderne (...). Présentation et commentaires de Xénia Muratova et Daniel Poirion. Paris, Lebaud, 1988, 4to, gilt green publ. cloth. - Unterkircher, F. - Bestiarium. Die texte der Handschrift Ms. Ashmole 1511 (...) in Lateinischer und Deutscher Sprache. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1986, 4to, sewn. Bookpl. B. [Gobbe] in all vol. (3 vol.)