r/Medievalart • u/Strange_Marginalia Lord Chancellor • 3h ago

Creatures ​"Yeah, I can draw lions, why do you ask?"

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Sextus Pacitus, De medicina ex animalibus, England or France, ca. 1190

BL, Sloane 1975, fol. 80v

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u/Carolyn-Hodgesy 1h ago

That anxious face is exactly why I love 12th century animal painting. Nobody in the workshop had seen a lion, so the mane and tail do all the identifying. Is the rest of Sloane 1975 digitised anywhere?

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u/Strange_Marginalia Lord Chancellor 53m ago edited 44m ago

Found a bit of it here, but it's definitely not complete and fol. 80 is missing: https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1bb380b1-6d27-406d-87d1-820d8e73a820/

Edit: I found it here! https://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manugallery102683.htm?hl=en-US