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Rochester Bestiary
The Rochester Bestiary ((London, British Library, Royal MS 12 F.xiii )) is a richly illuminated manuscript copy of a medieval bestiary, a book describing the appearance and habits of a large number of familiar and exotic animals, both real and legendary. The animals' characteristics are frequently allegorised, with the addition of a Christian moral.
==The bestiary tradition==
The medieval bestiary ultimately derives from the Greek-language ''Physiologus'', a text whose precise date and place of origin is disputed, but which was most likely written in North Africa sometime in the second or third century.〔McCulloch 1960, p. 18〕 The ''Physiologus'' was translated into Latin several times, at least as far back as the eighth century, the date of the first extant manuscripts, and likely much earlier, perhaps the fourth century.〔McCulloch 1960, pp. 21-22〕 While the earliest Latin translations were extremely faithful to their Greek source, later versions adapted more freely, particularly by the inclusion of additional information from other sources, including Pliny's ''Historia naturalis'', and, most significantly, Isidore of Seville's ''Etymologies''.〔McCulloch 1960, pp. 22, 28-29〕 The most important of the Latin ''Physiologus'' translations — the one now known by scholars as the "B Version" — was expanded even further in the twelfth century (most likely in the 1160s or 1170s), with more additions from Isidore, to become the so-called "Second Family" standard form of what now may be properly termed as the bestiary.〔McCulloch 1960, pp. 34-35〕〔Clark 2006, p. 27〕 This text was much longer than the original ''Physiologus'' and included in its typical format over 100 sections, distributed among nine major divisions of varying size. The first division included 44 animals or beasts and the second 35 birds, followed by a large division on different varieties of snakes, and divisions on worms, fish, trees, precious stones, and the nature and ages of man.〔McCulloch 1960, pp. 37-39〕 Manuscripts from this most familiar version of the bestiary were produced from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, with most dating from the thirteenth century.〔Clark and McMunn 1989, p. 199〕
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