Bestiary of Oxford - Ed Adeva

Definition Bestiary: Medieval bestiaries were treated teaching on the allegorical, religious and moral significance of animals mentioned in the Bible, are an attempt to bring into harmony the idea of God the Creator with his creation of Nature and convey the idea that knowing the natural world is a way of praising the Creator through his work

The Bestiary were distinctly Christian works with a moral message about life, work, service to God and death. Somehow, modern fable with its moral stories relayed through animal figures, are heirs of the medieval bestiary

This manuscript, the Bestiary of Oxford, which includes the properties of real and mythical animals, is an important document to reveal the knowledge of the time and the evolution of the concept of own world of the Middle Ages. Reflects changes of thought versus symbolism and allegory in relation to the surrounding world, the variations in curriculum and moral concepts and the growing interest in the natural sciences. We speak of the XII century, coinciding with the consolidation of the Gothic style in art.

The manuscript in question is a deluxe edition, with a profusion of gold and high artistic qualities clearly visible in the fineness of the drawings and the selection of colors. The funny Byzantine style to which they refer as fall within the tradition of English miniature. The inset of Figure comes in a square of Romanesque art, but the stylization of the figures and place us in the Gothic. The splendor of gold funds contributes to the preciousness of the manuscript

In the late twelfth century, in the late Romanesque became the rage in educated circles in England a new genre of books: the bestiary, profusely illustrated book of animals and based on biblical references and relevant ideas. The text accompanying the illustrations and faithfully explains the characteristics and peculiarities of animals, among which quite often include fabulous beings.

Among the many manuscripts, which is currently stored in Oxford is one of the oldest and most beautiful. The Oxford codex is lavishly decorated with gold leaf and includes magnificent representations of animals, plants and men, which are characterized by a bright gouache and a clear, calm and symmetrically balanced with a bright colorful composition. Virtually no other bestiary has such a wide repertoire of examples. In addition the chapter thumbnails of the book reproduced in oversized versions vividly descriptive and eight scenes from Genesis.

As unknown as the specific place of origin is the donor of the manuscript, made circa 1210 by anonymous artists. However, its luxurious presentation, specifically its waste of gold and silver suggest a high personality as the recipient of this gem. The Romanesque leather binding is currently in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.

Detail of the exterior of both books, study and facsimile.

More details inside the facsimile.

Folio, 2 vols, 104 sheets printed on parchment, Gothic typeface, 131 gouache on gold recorded six full-page decorated capitals,. Issue # 25 of an edition of 495. Full leather, spine gilt decorated with drawings and figures, is attached with a volume of comments of the work, 172 p, editorial material.. Case in fabric. Superb editing a manuscript collection alchemist and astrologer Freemason Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), preserved in the Bodleian Library Oxford

The work is a didactic treatise on the allegorical, religious and moral significance of animals mentioned in the Bible and has a double meaning: shows knowledge of nature as a way to approach God, and is a hymn of praise to the Creator. Facsimiles. Bibliophile. Moral literature. Zoology. Natural sciences. Facsimile. Bibliophilism. Moral literature. Zoology. Natural sciences. No. ref. Bookseller C14N98

Printed in Gothic script and regulate uniform with red and blue filigree case of modest dimensions, six leaves adorned with spectacular full-page miniatures, all on gold, among which the image of Christ or God the Creator, and beautiful of 131 recorded with polychrome figures of animals, all equally on gold, showing a good knowledge of the natural sciences.

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Format 276 x 183 mm

Extension 122 sheets

Latin language

Lighting 129 thumbnails on golden background

Location, symbol Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Ashmole 1511Facsimile ADEVA, Graz / Club du Livre, Paris / Art and Bibliophile, Madrid, 1982

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Bestiary Don Juan de Austria - Ed Siloé

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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