conventional title Physiologus was because the author introduces his stories from natural history with the phrase: "the physiologus says", that is, "the...
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Bern Physiologus (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Codex Bongarsianus 318) is a 9th-century illuminated copy of the Latin translation of the Physiologus. It was...
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Siren (mythology) (section Physiologus and bestiaries)
leading to the commingling involve the treatment of sirens in the medieval Physiologus and bestiaries, both iconographically, as well as textually in translations...
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The Icelandic Physiologus is a translation into Old Icelandic of a Latin translation of the 2nd-century Greek Physiologus. It survives in fragmentary...
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allegorically in the writings of Christian fathers as well as in the Physiologus and bestiaries. (Aristotle, Pliny, Nicander, Aelian) The standard lore...
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According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale...
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318 – Physiologus Bernensis". e-codices. Retrieved 11 September 2022., facsimile, fol. 13v Woodruff, Helen (September 1930). "The Physiologus of Bern:...
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from a single creature called the aspidochelone in the Physiologus. The Icelandic Physiologus contains two illustrations of the aspidochelone, one with...
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('sea-reek') and lyngbakr ('heather-back'). The aspidochelone of the Physiologus is identified as the potential source for the hafgufa lore. Although...
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Septuagint version of the book of Job, reappearing in the Greek Christian Physiologus of the 3rd or 4th century A.D. It is found in Medieval bestiaries such...
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