Since ancient times the animal world has had an overpowering influence on the mind of man to inspire in him a mixture of fear, awe and deep fascination. His manifold reality, more often mysterious and inescapable presence have been favoring the appearance of an ancient zoological culture of an effort to understand and so argued that symbolic interpretation has led to one of the most solid bodies of wisdom embodied in the famous medieval bestiaries.
In the next picture you can see the two volumes. The set consists of facsimile and a book study that thoroughly analyzes each page.
Facsimile S. XVI.Original preserved in the Monastery of Santa Maria de la Vid (Burgos)
The mysterious appearance of many animals, some of its disturbing and fascinating shapes dimensions, their hidden habits, or too diffuse, have fueled awe, admiration and respect for this impressive animal species worldwide, making it not only preferred object of observation and study, but also, as in the case of our medieval bestiary-in paradigm of good or evil in human alama glittering mirror and, ultimately, an inexhaustible source of spiritual and social wisdom with which equate to better difficult journey through this turbulent world. Here you can see photos of the interior and facsimile, with his models and manual text.
A while now , most educated in the fields of the western world is picking a strong tendency to deepen geographic or temporal remote cultures from ours. As elsewhere, there is growing interest in the ancient Chinese culture , philosophy, history and spirituality of ancient India, the Amazing little known Islamic or dark area in pre-Columbian America. And going back in time warp , the spell is evident that our Middle Ages exercised all their diversity , their particular worldview , his metaphysical world , its peculiar cosmology and cosmogony , the art of churches and cathedrals, its broad and rich symbolic language of our bestiaries be perhaps one of the most eloquent expressions .Mired as we are in this vortex of dizzying accumulation of scientific and technical knowledge we risk falling into an exclusive and excluding scientism lose all contact with these other cultures with which we are obliged to talk , which severely limits our human vision and ultimately take us even to disturb the necessary compression of ourselves.
The truth is that the proliferation of bestiaries was such that over time came to become the reference book for the educated and genuine artists briefs then.But this really educated people, cleric or philosopher that evoke a paradigm of the eternal truths, and driven by a strong Christian spiritual impulse, too humble country people, the peasants surrounded their pets and harmful , moving through forests, meadows and orchards, and even the ladies who basks practicing falconry be sent to this symbology bestiaries and see the butterfly or the first swallow, arrival with good weather, the emblem of the Resurrection Christ, for example, the gray donkey marked with a white cross on the back will evoke his painful walk to Calvary carrying the wood of their ordeal.
Just mention falconry and may not be idle warn our dear reader a rare curiosity, as is the fact that among the many pages of our bestiary found a short treatise on falconry which is the only illustrated this subject written in Spanish. In no other library or document may be found as happy coincidence.
The author, Martin Villaverde, who appears in a shortened form as the manuscript Villaxide-dedicates the book, as stated above, to Don Juan of Austria with these words: "I drew these lines to Vra. Excellencia with pasallas and rest awhile mirallas of many who worked in war. "We entertain remedarle and dedicate this book to those who have had or will have the opportunity and sufficient sensitivity to support our editorial work by acquiring a copy of this edition, that crossing and recrossing their beautiful pages also take a break from the many other ungrateful also modern life often bring.
Dear reader, faces one of the most beautiful and perfect bibliophile editions current. Not surprisingly facsimile earned the Fray Luis de León prize for the best work published in this section. And with them and our author-Martin-Villaverde one last tip we want to give a bestial advice we dare say: 'Heal well bivir / how long have / A death there's hope. "
Here we can see a detailed help book. Where vien translated and explained the text of the facsimile.
More details of the book. Especially closures lids, with a simple click and curious.
The facsimile is made of full leather over table with nerves, pedal bone and metal clasps. There are 370 color illustrated pages respecting faults and defects of the original paper.
Study by D. Juan José Vallejo Penedo, Asunción Gómez de Segura Serna, D. Enrique Martín Pérez and D. Jose Manuel Rueda Fradejas includes test D. Manuel Alvar. 777 pgs.
In this last picture, you can see that on the last page the notarial certificate that shows the authenticity of the work is located. This is number 680 of 696 copies of which it consists. Unique in the world and out and in the editorial.
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Number 680 of a single roll of 696.
Exhausted.
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