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• Bestiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even ...

• Encyclopedia Mythica: Bestiary

  In the European Middle Ages a bestiary was a collection of stories, each based on a description of certain qualities of an animal, plant, or even stone. The stories presented ...

• bestiary definition |Dictionary.com

  noun, plural -ar·ies. a collection of moralized fables, esp. as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.