Organizing the natural world.

Check out the great sources mentioned in this episode using these links! Full citations are listed in the Bibliography.

Aberdeen Bestiary via University of Aberdeen. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

The Ashmole Bestiary via Digital Bodleian. https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faeff7fb-f8a7-44b5-95ed-cff9a9ffd198/surfaces/bb83ca90-bbe4-45e8-be56-36a649d4cacf/

Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia via Tufts University. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0978.phi001.perseus-eng1:1.dedication

Aristotle's Historia Animalium via Internet Classics Archive (MIT). Accessed January 29, 2021. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.1.i.html

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Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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Bibliography:

Aberdeen Bestiary. University of Aberdeen. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/.

Aristotle. The History of Animals. Translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.1.i.html.

"Burgerbibliothek Bern, Codex Bongarsianus 318 (The Bern Physiologus)". Manuscript: Codex Bongarsianus 318. The Medieval Bestiary. January 15, 2011. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manu1345.htm.

Cynewulf. The Old English Elene, Phœnix, and Physiologus. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, 1919.

"Differences Between Parchment, Vellum and Paper". National Archives. August 15, 2016. Accessed January 29, 2021. https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/paper-vellum.html.

The Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Bestiary". Encyclopaedia Britannica. April 18, 2013. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/art/bestiary-medieval-literary-genre.

Mark, Joshua J. "Illuminated Manuscripts". Ancient History Encyclopedia. March 6, 2018. Accessed January 29, 2021. https://www.ancient.eu/Illuminated_Manuscripts/.

"MS. Ashmole 1511". Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_290.

Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Translated and edited by John Bostoke, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., Ed. 1855. Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Accessed January 29, 2021. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:latinLit:phi0978.phi001.perseus-eng1:1.dedication.

Ross, Dr. Nancy. "The Bestiary". Khan Academy. Accessed February 1, 2021. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/judaism-christianity-in-art/christianity-art/a/the-bestiary.

Sancti Ephiphanii Ad Physiologum. Christopher Plantin Antwerp: 1588. University of Victoria, McPherson Library. Accessed February 1, 2021. http://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/index.html.

Woodruff, Helen. "The Physiologus of Bern: A Survival of Alexandrian Style in a Ninth Century Manuscript." The Art Bulletin 12, no. 3 (1930): 226-53. Accessed January 31, 2021.