Northumberland Bestiary
The Northumberland Bestiary is an illuminated manuscript bestiary, dating to around 1250-1260 and containing 112 miniature paintings. It may have been produced in northern England – its miniatures are directly inspired by a 1200–1210 bestiary now in the British Library (Royal MS 12 C XIX).[1][2]
Its first known owner was Robert Turges, a gentleman in
Dukes of Northumberland (hence its name) and held at Alnwick Castle until being sold at Sotheby's in London on 29 November 1990 for £2.97 million to a private buyer. It was finally acquired by its present owner, the J. Paul Getty Museum, in June 2007.[1]
Gallery
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Lynx and griffin, f.26 -
Crocodile eating a man, f.49v -
Flying fish, f.46v
See also
References
- ^ a b Pen and Parchment, p.144-145
- ^ Catalogue entry
Bibliography
- Eric G. Millar, A Thirteenth-Century Bestiary in the Library of Alnwick Castle, Oxford, Roxburghe Club, 1958
- Cynthia White, From the Ark to the Pulpit. An Edition and Translation of the Transitional Northumberland Bestiary (13th century), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009
- Cynthia White, The Northumberland Bestiary and the Art of Preaching, Reinardus, vol.18, numéro 1, 2005, p.167-192
- Melanie Holcomb (ed.), Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, 188 p. (ISBN 9781588393180, lire en ligne [archive]), p. 144-145