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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 rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson.(…) The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary )
http://top10.ua/art/2012/07/13/bestiarii
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 rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson.(…) The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary )