TIGER
Tigris
This record begins with a verified image witness from the Aberdeen Bestiary. Isidore treats the tiger at XII.2.7; this page links that passage but does not translate it.
The image file identifies the object as folio 8 recto from University of Aberdeen MS 24. Public-domain faithful reproduction via Wikimedia Commons.
ISIDORE / ETYMOLOGY
ISIDORE XII.2.7. The tiger’s entry sits in Book XII, De animalibus, section 2, De bestiis. The Latin is linked under Sources. No transcription or translation is published on this page.
EARLIER SOURCES / PHYSIOLOGUS
NO PHYSIOLOGUS LAYER CLAIMED. This site does not treat “Physiologus” as one fixed text, and no version-specific tiger chapter has been checked.
LATER ALLEGORY / MANUSCRIPT WITNESSES
The Aberdeen MS 24 witness appears above, and the university’s folio page is linked under Sources. No other witness is shown. A later manuscript picture is not an illustration of Isidore’s seventh-century text.
HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW
Isidore’s tiger is at XII.2.7, checked in the LacusCurtius Lindsay text. No transcription, translation or Physiologus layer is published here.
University of Aberdeen · MS 24 · Aberdeen Bestiary · approx. c. 1200. Catalogue and image witness verified for this record.
Folio 8 recto (tiger scene). Public-domain faithful reproduction on Wikimedia Commons.
DIGITAL FACSIMILE of the selected folio (University of Aberdeen MS 24). The file presented is the Wikimedia Commons reproduction.
The specific image file used here is a Wikimedia Commons reproduction marked public domain. This is not a blanket University of Aberdeen institutional reuse determination. Institutional terms may apply to other views of the same manuscript.
The transmission stack, status labels, and interface framing are authored by Make It Believable. They are not historical testimony.
WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW YET
- Which Physiologus version, if any, lies behind the Aberdeen tiger.
- Which other manuscripts carry the tiger, and on what terms their images can be reused.
