The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth CenturyOver 125 illustrations from the original medieval manuscripts. It is a serious work of natural history, and is one of the bases upon which our own knowledge of biology is founded. |
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| Title | The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century Volume 26 of Capricorn books |
| Editor | Terence Hanbury White |
| Contributor | Cambridge University Library |
| Edition | 13 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1960 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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