Physiologus, a metrical bestiary of twelve chapters / by Bishop Theobald, printed in Cologne 1492. The author is believed to have been abbot of Monte Cassino, A.D. 1022-1035, and a description of the abbey is appended with illustrations. Translated by Alan Wood Rendell.
xxvii pages : facsimile ([34] p.) 99, [1] p. xv plates (including frontispiece) on 8 l., facsimile ; 21 cm
Note
Original title: Phisiologus Theobaldi / Episcopi de naturis duo / decim animalium. [Colophon: The Finit phisiologus Theobaldi ... / Impressus per Henric Quentell in sancta ciuitate Coloniensi /]
Contents
Introduction by the Right Reverend Herbert Bury.--Foreword.-- Original Latin text [facsim.]--Translation.--Appendix: A. An unpublished moralized bestiary from the Chapter of Fano. (Translation from the Italian article in 'Studia Picena')--Appendix B. Comparison of various Latin versions of the Physiologus: (1) Printed in Cologne, 1492. (2) Codex no. 5 Archives of Fanum. (3) Migne, t. 171, col. 1217-24.
