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Historical Bibliography Updated: May 4, 2018

Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium.

Publication Details

Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1482 CE.

The earliest printed edition (circa 1482) of the Physiologus, a Christological natural historical work that originated in Late Antiquity, and remained popular through the Middle Ages. This edition, which was very widely used as a school text, sometimes provided with a commentary, during the Middle Ages, was attributed to a bishop Theobaldus, who may have been Abbot of Montecassino from 1022-1035. ISTC No. it00142000.

English translation: Physiologus: A metrical bestiary of twelve chapters by Bishop Theobald printed in Cologne 1492. Translated by Alan Wood Rendell. London: John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd., 1928. Digital facsimile from Bestiary.ca at this link. The Theobaldus version was retranslated and edited by P. T. Eden as Theobaldi "Physiologus" (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972).

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Entry Number#8979
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/11158
External URLphysiologus-de-naturis-duodecim-animalium

Geographic Context

Publication place: Augsburg

Mentioned in annotation: Cologne; London; Leiden