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Heck, once the Bestiary is out I’ll make one for each monster and those will get loads of use.
Preparing Image Visual Aids For Your Game « Geek Related 2009
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I was just thinking, Amanda, that you might also be interested in a book by Nicholas Christopher, The Bestiary, which is fictional book about the search for an ancient illuminated manuscript (the real-life Caravan Bestiary) that describes animals left off Noah's Ark (including the Catoblepas, a white bird with divining powers) and was assumed lost many years ago.
Blast from the Past: Loaded Questions with Brenda Rickman Vantrease, author of "The Illuminator" 2008
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A standard book used by medieval artists, the Bestiary was an important influence in many areas of medieval art.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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The Bestiary is a moralizing natural history of ancient origin, based on the Greek Physiologus.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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A standard book used by medieval artists, the Bestiary was an important influence in many areas of medieval art.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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The Bestiary is a moralizing natural history of ancient origin, based on the Greek Physiologus.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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The earliest versified Bestiary, which is also a Volucrary, a Herbary, and a Lapidary, that of Philippe de Thaon (before 1135), is versified from the Latin _Physiologus_, itself a translation from the work of an Alexandrian Greek of the second century.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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With its IMAX time trips and Rembrandt refrigerator magnets, the "Bestiary" has raised fierce opposition from some of New York's museum elite.
The Bone Vault: Summary and book reviews of The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein. 2003
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About the middle of the thirteenth century there appeared an English metrical "Bestiary", an adaptation of the Latin "Physiologus Theobaldi"; this has been edited by Wright and Halliwell in "Reliquiæ antiquæ" (I, 208-27), also by
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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That's the rationale for the five poems that form what I so cannily call the Bestiary Cycle (isn't the title just the height of arrogance?
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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