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Horae ad usum Parisiensem [Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry] (Jacquemart de Hesdin et al. 1409). fol. 45r.
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Aberdeen Bestiary

MS 24, University Library, Aberdeen, Folio 46v, 47r (12e eeuw)

India alone produces the bird called the parrot, green in colour, with a deep-red neck and a large tongue, broader than those of other birds, with which it utters distinct words; so that if you did not see it, you would think it was a man talking. Characteristically, it greets you by saying in Latin or Greek: 'Ave' or 'Kere!' - 'Hail!' It will learn other words if you teach it. Which explains the lines: 'Like a parrot, I will learn other people's names from you, but this I have learned by myself to say: Hail, Caesar!' The parrot's beak is of such hardness that if it falls from a height on to a rock, it takes the impact on its mouth, using it as base of uncommon toughness. Its skull is so thick, that if ever you have to admonish it with blows to learn - for it tries hard to speak like men - you should beat it with an iron rod. For when it is young, up to two years of age, it learns what it is told very quickly and keeps it firmly in mind; when it is a little older, it is forgetful and is difficult to teach.

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Bestiariums met een papegaai / Parrot Art Research Underway

Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24, folio 46v, 47r
Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine (Montpellier), H. 437 (L'Image du Monde / Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais), folio 107v
Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine (Montpellier), H. 437 (L'Image du Monde / Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais), folio 216r
Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511 (The Ashmole Bestiary), folio 58v
Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 533 (Liber de naturis bestiarum), folio 15v
Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, folio 63r
Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 151, folio 52v
British Library, Additional MS 11283, folio 17v
British Library, Additional MS 11390 (Der Naturen Bloeme), folio 47r
British Library, Additional MS 42130 (The Lutterell Psalter), folio 51r
British Library, Harley MS 3244, folio 51v
British Library, Harley MS 4751 (Harley Bestiary), folio 39v
British Library, Rochester Bestiary, MS 12, ff52r-52v
British Library, Royal MS 12 C XIX, folio 40v
Cambridge University Library, Ii.4.26, folio 33r
Cambridge University Library, Kk.4.25, folio 84r
Corpus Christi College Parker Library, MS 53 (The Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary), folio 199v
Getty Museum, MS. 100 (The Northumberland Bestiary), folio 34v
Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1633 4° (Bestiary of Ann Walsh), folio 33v
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16 (Der Naturen Bloeme), folio 99v
Leningrad Bestiary, Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, St Petersburg, Q.v.V,1
Lippische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 70 (Der Naturen Bloeme), folio 74r
Morgan Library, MS M.81 (The Worksop Bestiary), folio 50v
Morgan Library, MS M.500, Iran, Maragheh, folio 69v,
Morgan Library, MS M.890 (Fountains Abbey Bestiary), folio 12r
Museum Meermanno, MMW, 10 B 25, folio 28r
Particuliere verzameling. MS 6739 (Bestiairium van Pierre de Beauvais), folio 17v
St John's College (Oxford) Library, MS. 61, folio 38v
Trinity College Library (Cambridge), R.14.9, folio 100v
Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, Cod.II.1.2° 109 (De bestiis et aliis rebus), folio 147r
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.theol.et.phil.fol.45 (De universo), folio 106r

A bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about all sorts of animals, real and imaginary, birds and even rocks, accompanied by a moralising explanation. Although it deals with the natural world it was never meant to be a scientific text and should not be read as such. Some observations may be quite accurate but they are given the same weight as totally fabulous accounts. The bestiary appeared in its present form in England in the twelfth century, as a compilation of many earlier sources, principally Physiologus. A great deal of its charm comes from the humour and imagination of the illustrations, painted partly for pleasure but justified as a didactic tool 'to improve the minds of ordinary people, in such a way that the soul will at least perceive physically things which it has difficulty grasping mentally: that what they have difficulty comprehending with their ears, they will perceive with their eyes'
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