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Detailed record for Sloane 278
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| Author |
Hugh of Fouilloy |
| Title |
Aviarium ; Bestiary, in the Dicta Chrysostomi form |
| Origin |
France, N. |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
| Decoration |
1 full-page diagram with frame and central roundel in colours and gold (f. 2v). Numerous large miniatures in colours (29 of the aviarium; 24 of the bestiary). 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red and blue penwork decoration (f. 1*). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, or in red, usually with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Highlighting of letters in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
265 x 180 (190 x 135) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 57 + 1* ( + an unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 57 + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt edges; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Probably Archbishop George Neville of York (d.1476), (see James 1928).
Inscription in Greek (f. 1*).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliothecae Sloanianae Min: 190' (ff. [v]; 1v.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Sloanianae(Manuscripts 1-1091), ([London: British Museum], no date), no. 278.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 7.
M. R. James, The Bestiary: Being a Reproduction in full of the Manuscript Ii.4.26 in the University Library, Cambridge (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1928), p. 11.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), pp. 244-45.
Florence McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries, University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 33 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962), p. 42, pl. X.1.
Brunsdon Yapp, Birds in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British LIbrary, 1981), p. 65.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), p. 75, fig. 31.
Dora Faraci, Il bestiario medio inglese (Ms Arundel 292 della British Library) (Rome: Japadre, 1990), p. 258.
Anne Payne, Medieval Beasts (London: British Library, 1990), pp. 1, 12, 32, 40, 59, 61, 69, 75, 82, 84, 93.
Ron Baxter, Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 148.
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998; first publ. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), p. 57, fig. 49.
Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 25, 27, pl. 21.
Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, ‘La sirène et l’o(ono)centaure dans le Physiologus grec et latin et dans quelques bestiaries: Le texte et l’image’, in Bestiaries médiévaux: Nouvelles perspectives sur les manuscrits et les traditions textuelles, ed. by Baudouin Van den Abelle, Publications de l’Institut d’études médiévales, Collection Textes, études, congrés, 21 (Louvain: Brepols, 2005), pp. 169-82 (p. 179 n. 47).
Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, ‘Le centaure dans l’art préroman et roman: Sources d’inspiration et modes de transmission’, Les Cahiers de Saint-Micel de Cuxa, 37 (2006), 33-42 (p. 38 n. 49).
The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. by David Badke, [http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manulocshelf.htm] [accessed 14 August 2009]. |
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f. 7
Virgin and kneeling monk |
f. 13v
Cedar tree |
f. 16
Pelican |
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f. 34v
Caladrius and ill men |
f. 41
Eagle |
f. 46
Unicorn |
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f. 47
Mermaid |
f. 48v
Elephants, dragon, and mandrake |
f. 49v
Onager |
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f. 50v
Mythical creatures |
f. 51
Mythical creatures |
f. 53
Fox and birds |
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