MANUSCRIPTS

A witness can be catalogued without pretending that its whole object is digitized, downloadable, or freely reusable.

Only Aberdeen MS 24 currently has active image witnesses (Wikimedia Commons public-domain reproductions). Other witnesses retain separate access and rights states until item-level reuse is confirmed. Catalogue description is not the same as direct folio inspection.

WITNESS 01 · ON THE PAGE

VERIFIED METADATA · IMAGE WITNESSES ACTIVE

01 · Aberdeen Bestiary

University of Aberdeen
MS 24

ACCESS · DIGITAL FACSIMILERIGHTS · COMMONS PUBLIC-DOMAIN FILE

IMAGE SOURCE · WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (reproduction of University of Aberdeen MS 24)

SECOND FAMILY BESTIARY · c. 1200 · 10 image witnesses in use across the animal records. Each Commons file is cleared individually; institutional images are not reproduced.

WHERE THESE BOOKS SIT

All ten are bestiaries: descendants of the Physiologus, not copies of it.Aberdeen MS 24 is a Second Family English bestiary. See how the line runs from the Greek Physiologus through the Latin versions.

SOURCE LINEAGE →

WITNESS 01 · OTHER LEAVES