Medieval
Studies
Medieval
Encyclopedias, Bestiaries, and Lapidaries
I. Encyclopedias
Bibliographies and Surveys:
Medieval Science,
Technology, and Medicine: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas F. Glick,
Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis (New York, 2005). Q. 509.02 M468 HIR.
M. W. Twomey, “Medieval Encyclopedias,” in
Kaske, Medieval Christian Literary Imagery, pp. 182-215; Berlioz, Identifier sources et citations, pp. 239-46.
Gregory G. Guzman, “Encyclopedias,” in Medieval
Latin Studies, ed. Mantello and Rigg,
pp. 702-7.
M. W. Twomey, “Encyclopedias,” in The
Manuscript Book, 1100-1400, ed. R. M.
Thomson and N. Morgan, Cambridge History of the Book in Britain 2 (Cambridge,
1997).
M.
W. Twomey, “Towards a Reception History of Western Mediaeval Encyclopedias in
England Before 1500,” in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts: Proceedings of the Second COMERS
Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996,
ed. Peter Binkley (Leiden, 1997), pp. 329-62.
M.
W. Twomey, “Medieval Encyclopedias in England Before 1500: A Preliminary List,”
in Der Wandel der Enzyklopädie vom Hochmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Christel Meier, Münstersche
Mittelalter-Forschungen (Munich, 2002), pp. 313-401.
COMERS Encyclopedia
Project Working Bibliography.
See also Peter Binkley, ed., Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts: Proceedings of
the Second COMERS Congress,
Groningen, 1-4 July 1996 (Leiden, 1997).
John B. Friedman and Jessica M. Wegmann, Medieval
Iconography: A Research Guide (New York, 1998), pp. 101-9.
Robert Collison, Encyclopedias: Their
History throughout the Ages: A Bibliographical Guide . . . (New York,
1966). 030 C697E1966 STX.
The Medieval Hebrew
Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University
Conference, ed. Steven Harvey
(Dodrecht, 2000). 039.924 M468 STX.
Olga Weijers, Dictionnaires et répertoires
au moyen âge: une étude du vocabulaire
(Turnhout, 1991). 413.028 W429D STX.
Bernard Ribémont, Les
origines des encyclopédies médiévales d’Isidore de Séville aux Carolingiens (Paris, 2001). 871 I5.Yr STX.
Linda Ehrsam Voigts and
Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle
English: An Electronic Reference (Ann Arbor, 2000). CDROM 808.0665 V873 EGR.
Websites:
Allgemeinwissen und
Gesellschaft: Enzyklopädien als
Indikatoren für Veränderung der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von Wissen,
Bildung und Information.
Includes a bibliography, Forschungsliteratur zur
Enzyclopädik.
Atelier
Vincent de Beauvais: Encyclopédisme médiéval et Transmission des connaissances.
Encyclopedies
Médiévales, by Marie-Christine Duchenne.
Littératures savantes: Didactiques, Sciences, et techniques au
Moyen Âge.
“An English Version
of the Chapter Headings in Medieval Encyclopedias,” compiled by Stephen J.
Reimer and his students. Includes Isidore, Etymologiae, Rabanus Maurus, De universo, Alexander Neckham’s De naturis rerum, Trevisa’s English translation of Bartholomaeus
Anglicus, and Caxton’s Mirour of the World (translation of a prose redaction of Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago
mundi.
Some Major Latin Encyclopedias:
Albertus
Magnus, Compendium theologicae veritatis.
Alexander Neckham. De naturis rerum, ed. Thomas Wright, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi
Scriptores [Rolls Series] 34 (London, 1863). 942.03 G79 v. 34 STX.
Bartholomeus Anglicus, De rerum
proprietatibus: INCUN x039B91d 1483;
FILM MS 039 B91DET5; A Manuscript of the
Late 13th Century; John Trevisa, On the Properties of Things: John
Trevisa’s Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, 3 vols., ed. M. C. Seymour et al. (Oxford, 1975-88).
039B91dEt1975 STX; Batman Uppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus
Rerum (London, 1582); Medieval
Lore from Bartholomaeus Anglicus, ed. Robert Steele; Bartholomeus
Anglicus On the Properties of Soul and Body: De proprietatibus rerum libri III
et IV, ed. R. James Long (Toronto, 1979), 150 B283D:E CLX; Bartholomaeus
Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum, Book XIX, Chapters on Mathematics, Measures,
and Music, ed. Juris G. Lidaka (1987). See Michael C. Seymour, et al., Bartholomaeus Anglicus
and his Encyclopedia (Aldershot,
1992); Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, Vol. I:
Introduction, Prologue, et Livres I-IV, ed. B. van den Abeele, H. Meyer, M. W. Twomey, B. Roling, and R. J.
Long, De Diversis Artibus 78 (NS 41) (Turnhout, 2007).
Barthélemy
l’Anglais et l’encyclopédisme médiéval.
Brunetto Latini. Li Livres dou Trésor,
ed. Francis J. Carmody, University of California Publications in Modern
Philology 22 (1948).
Honorius Augustodunensis. Imago mundi, ed. Valerie Flint, Archives d’histoire doctrinale
et littéraire du moyen âge 49 (1982),
7-153; Caxton’s Mirrour of the World,
ed. Oliver H. Prior, Early English Text Society ES 110 (London, 1913).
Hrabanus Maurus. De universo, PL 111, 9-614.
Hrabanus
Maurus, De rerum naturis.
Isidore
of Seville. Etymologiae, ed. W. M.
Lindsay, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1911); San Isidro de Sevilla,
Etimologías, 2 vols., ed. J. O. Reta
and M.-A. Marcos Casquero (Madrid, 1982-83). 871 I5E.SPO STX.
Isidore of Seville. De natura rerum, PL 83, 963-1018; Isidore de Séville, Traité de la
nature, ed. Jacques Fontaine
(Bordeaux, 1960).
James le Palmer, Omne bonum: A
Fourteenth-century Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge: British Library MSS
Royal 6 E VI, 2 vols., ed. Lucy
Freeman Sandler (London, 1996). Q. 030.942 SA56O ARX Vault.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 10
vols., ed. and trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library (London, l938).
Thomas of Cantimpré. Thomas
Cantimpratensis, Liber de natura rerum, vol. 1, ed. Helmut Boese (Berlin,
1973); “Thomas of Cantimpré. De naturis rerum. Prologue, Book III and
Book XIXX,” ed. John B. Friedman, Cahiers d’études médiévales II. La
science de la nature: théories et pratiques (Montreal, 1974), pp. 107-54.
Vincent of Beauvais, Bibliotheca mundi
(Speculum quadruplex) Film 030V74b; Speculum
naturale, INCUN xf875V7rsn1483; Speculum
historiale, INCUN xf875V74sh1483,
FILM x871HY15er1494. On Vincent see most recently Serge Lusignan, Lector et
compilator: Vincent de Beauvais, frère précheur: une intellectuel et son milieu
au XIIIe siècle (Gr_ne, 1997). BX
2613 L42 Music.
Hans Voorbij, Vincent of
Beauvais Bibliography.
II. Bestiaries
Bibliography:
Aberdeen Bestiary Project, Bestiary
Bibliography .
Esther
Pascua, Ideas on Nature and Animals in the Middle Ages. Bibliography.
John B. Friedman and Jessica M. Wegmann, Medieval
Iconography: A Research Guide (New York, 1998), pp. 247-314.
Willene Clark and Meradith T. McMunn, Birds
and Beasts of the Middle Ages: the Bestiary and its Legacy (Philadelphia, 1989). 809.9336B38 STX. With an
Appendix, “Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions,” pp. 197-203.
Florence McCulloch, Medieval Latin and
French Bestiaries, rev. ed. (Chapel
Hill, 1962). 840.09N81s no. 33 STX. Includes extensive bibliography.
General Studies:
Nona C. Flores, ed., Animals in the Middle
Ages: A Book of Essays (New York,
1996). 398.2094045 AN54 STX.
Wilma B. George and Brunsdon Yapp, The
Naming of the Beasts: Natural History in the Medieval Bestiary (London, 1991). 591.012 G293N ARX.
Debra Hassig, Medieval Bestiaries: Text,
Image, Ideology (Cambridge, 1995).
821.09 H278M ARX.
Debra Hassig, The Mark of the Beast: The
Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature (New York, 2000).
Nikolaus Henkel, Studien zum Physiologus
im Mittelalter (Tübingen, 1976).
881AP56.YH.
Samuel A. Ives and Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, An
English 13th Century Bestiary: A New Discovery in the Technique of Medieval
Illumination (New York, 1942). 655.13 IV3E ARX, Biology.
Francis Klingender, Animals in Art and
Thought to the End of the Middle Ages, ed. E Antal and J. Harthan
(Cambridge, MA, 1971). 704.9432 K68A ARX, UGX.
Friedrich Lauchert, Geschichte der
Physiologus (Strassburg, 1889).
Ann Payne, Medieval Beasts (London, 1990). 704.9432 P293M RBR.
Ben E. Perry, “Physiologus,” Real-Encyclopädie
der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 20/1 (Stuttgart, 1941), cols.
1074-1129.
Beryl Rowland, Animals with Human Faces:
A Guide to Animal Symbolism (Knoxville, TN, 1973).
Joyce E. Salisbury, Animals in the Middle
Ages (New York, 1994).
Some Major Bestiaries:
Albertus Magnus. De animalibus, ed. Hermann Stadler, Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Philosophie des Mittelalters 15-16 (Münster,
1916-21).
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus. Libellus de natura
animalium: A Fifteenth-century Bestiary Reproduced in Facsimile (London, 1958).
Bestiarium: Die Texte der Handschrift Ms.
Ashmole 1511 der Bodleian Library Oxford
in lateinischer und deutscher Sprache, ed. Franz Unterkircher (Graz,
1986). 398.245 B46511986 STX.
The Bestiary: Being A Reproduction in Full
of Ms. Ii 4. 26 in the University Library, Cambridge, ed. M. R. James, Roxburghe Club (Oxford, 1928);
trans. T. H. White, The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York, 1954). 875.8 B464:E1984 UGX.
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the
Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodley 764
, ed. Richard H. Barber (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1993). 875 B632B:E EGX.
Bodley Herbal and Bestiary: MS. Bodley
130, intro. W. O. Hassall,
Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts in Microform Series 1: the Bodleian Library 8
(Oxford, 1978).
Pseudo-Chrysostom, Dicta Chrysostomi.
“Dicta Joh. Crisostomi de naturis bestiarum,” ed. G. Heider, Archiv für
Kunde Österreichischer Geschichts-Quellen 5 (1850), 523-82.
Guillaume le Clerc. Le bestiare. Das
Thierbuch des normanischen Dichters Guillaume le Clerc, ed. Robert Reinsch
(Leipzig, 1892); Le Bestiaire divin de Guillaume Clerc de Normandie,
trouvere du XIIIe siècle, ed. C. Hippeau, Collecitons de poetes français
du Moyen Age 1 (Caen, 1852; rep. Geneva, 1970).
Hugh of Folieto. Aviarium, ed. Willene B. Clark, The Medieval Book of Birds (Binghamton, 1992). 875 H873D:EC RBR.
Pseudo-Hugh of St. Victor. De bestiis et
aliis rebus, PL 177, 13-164.
The Icelandic Physiologus. Facsimile
Edition, ed. Halldor Hermannson
(Ithaca, NY, 1938).
Isidore of Seville. Etymologies, Livre
XII, Des Animaux, ed. and trans.
Jacques André (Paris, 1986). 871.1S5E1981.
A Medieval Bestiary, ed. J. L. Schrader (New York, 1986). 709.02 SCH6M
RBR.
The Middle English Physiologus, ed. Hanneke Wirtjes, EETS os 209 (London, 1991).
Novus phisiologus: nach Hs. Darmstadt 2780, ed. A. P. Orbán (Leiden, 1989). 875.1 N8591989 STX.
The Old English Physiologus, ed. Ann Squires, Durham Medieval Texts 5 (Durham,
1988).
A Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary of the
Fourteenth Century, ed. M. R. James,
Roxburghe Club (Oxford, 1921). XQ. 223.2B47L1921 RBR.
Philippe de Thaun. Le bestiare de
Philippe de Thaun, ed. Emmanuel Walberg (Lund, 1900).
Physiologus Latinus, éditions
préliminaires, versio B, ed. F. J.
Carmody (Paris, 1939); Physiologus: The Very Ancient Book of Beasts, Plants
and Animals, trans. Carmody (San Francisco, 1953); “Physiologus Versio Y,”
ed. Carmody, Univ. of California Publications in Classical Philology
12/7 (1941), 95-134; trans. Michael J. Curley (Austin,TX, 1979). 889.1 P56P:E
STX.
Physiologus Bernensis:Voll-Faksimile
Ausgabe des Codex Bongarsianus 318 der
Burgerbibliothek Bern, ed. Christoph Steiger and Otto Hamburger (Basel,
1964).
Pierre de Beauvais. Le bestiaire de Pierre
de Beauvais, version courte, ed. Guy
R. Mermier (Paris, 1977) 841 P613OB.M STX; A Medieval Book of Beasts: Pierre
de Beauvais’ Bestiary, trans. Guy R.
Mermier (Lewiston, 1992). 841 P613OB:E1992 STX.
Theobaldi “Physiologus,” ed. and trans. P. T. Eden (Leiden, 1972). 398
T343P1972 STX; Middle English version in An English Miscellany: Bestiary,
Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred and Religious Poems of the Thirteenth
Century, ed. Richard Morris, EETS OS 49 (London, l872).
A Thirteenth-Century Bestiary in the
Library of Alnwick Castle, ed. Eric
Millar, Roxburghe Club (Oxford, l958).
Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile
of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian MS Ashmole 1504, ed. Nicholas Barker, Roxburghe Club (London, 1988).
F. 091.0942 T93 RBR.
Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im
Originalformat der Handschrift Ms. Ashmole 1511: Bestiarium aus der Besitz der Bodleian Library, Oxford der
Reihe Codices Selecti (Graz, 1982). XQ. 398.245B4651982 RBR.
Theobaldi “Physiologus”, ed. and trans. P. T. Eden (Leiden, 1972). 398
T343P1972 STX.
III. Lapidaries
John B. Friedman and Jessica M. Wegmann, Medieval
Iconography: A Research Guide (New York, 1998), pp. 337-39.
Joan Evans, Magical Jewels of the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, particularly
in England (Oxford, 1922). 133 EV15M STX.
Robert Max Garrett, Precious Stones in
Old English Literature (Munich, 1909).
Robert Halleux, “Damigéron, Evax et Marbode:
l’héritage alexandrin dans les lapidaires médiévaux,” Studi medievali
3rd ser. 15/1 (1974), 327-47.
Peter Kitson, “Lapidary Traditions in
Anglo-Saxon England: Part 1, the Background,” Anglo-Saxon England 7 (1978) 9-; “Lapidary Traditions in Anglo-Saxon
England: Part II, Bede’s ‘Explanatio Apocalypsis’ and Related Works,” Anglo-Saxon
England 12 (1983) 73-123.
Christel Meier, Gemma spiritalis: Methode
und Gebrauch der Edelsteinallegorese vom frühen Christentum bis ins 18.
Jahrhundert, 2 vols. (Munich, 1977-).
Fernand de
Mély, Les lapidaires de l’antiquité et du moyen âge, 3 vols. (Paris, 1896-1902).
Some Major Lapidaries:
Albertus Magnus. Book of Minerals,
trans. Dorothy Wyckoff (Oxford, 1967).
Alfonso el Sabio. Lapidario and Libro de
las formas & ymagenes, ed.
Roderic C. Diman and Lynn W. (Madison, WI, 1980). 861L310L.D STX.
Anglo-Norman Lapidaries, ed. Paul
Studer and Joan Evans (Paris, 1924).
Pseudo-Aristotle. Das Steinbuch des
Aristoteles, ed. Julius Ruska (Heidelberg, 1912).
Arnoldus
Saxo. De virtutibus lapidum (= De floribus rerum naturalium cap. III). Valentin Rose, “Aristoteles De lapidibus
und Arnoldus Saxo,” Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 18 (1875), 321–455; Emil Stange, ed., Die
Encyklopädie des Arnoldus Saxo, zum ersten Mal nach einem Erfurter Codex, Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Königlichen Gymnasiums
zu Erfurt 1905/06 (Erfurt, 1906), pp. 69–77; Isabelle Draelants, “De floribus
rerum naturalium,” in Die Enzyklopädie im Wandel vom Hochmittelalter bis zur
frühen Neuzeit, ed. Christel Meier, Münstersche
Mittelalter-Schriften 78 (Munich, 2002), pp. 85–121.
Damigeron-Evax. De lapidibus. Ophei
Lithica, accedit Damigeron de lapidibus, ed. E. Abel (Berlin, 1881);
Pitra, Spicilegium Solesmense III, 324ff.; Les lapidaires grecs, ed. Robert Halleux and Jacques Schamp (Paris, 1985).
English Mediaeval Lapidaries, ed. Joan Evans and Mary S. Serjeantson, EETS os 190
(London, 1933).
Epiphanius of Salamis. De duodecim
lapidibus, ed. de M_ly, Les lapidaires grecs (Paris, 1898) II,
193. 553.8 M49L STX.
Isidore of Seville, Etymologies,
Book 16.
Le lapidaire du quatorzième siècle:
description des pierres précieuses et de leurs vertus magiques, ed. Isaac del Sotto (Vienna, 1862, rep. Geneva,
1974). 840.9M31L1974 STX.
Les lapidaires français du moyen âge des
XIIe, XIIIe, et XIVe siècles, ed.
Léopold Pannier (Paris, 1882).
Marbode of Rennes. Liber de lapidibus, PL 171, 1737-70; Marbode of Rennes’s (1935-1123)
De lapidibus, ed. J. M. Riddle,
trans. C. W. King (Wiesbaden, 1977). See also Emile Ernaut, Marbode, evèque
de Rennes: sa vie et ses oeuvres (1035-1123) (Rennes, 1889).
The Middle English “Boke of Stones”: The
Southern Version, ed. George R.
Keiser, Scripta: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 13 (Brussels,
1984).’
Pliny the Elder, Natural History,
Book 37.
Philippe de Valois. See Léon Baisier, The
Lapidaire Chrétien: Its Composition, Its Influence, Its Sources (Washington, D.C., 1936). 841 L31DB16 STX.
IV. Herbals
Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The
Illustrative Tradition (London, 2000).
Anne Van Arsdall, Medieval
Herbal Remedies: The Old English
Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine
(New York, 2002). 615.3210942
V268m STX.
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