Zirc Bestiary

Created for Juan de Austria, the victor of the naval battle of Lepanto: the only surviving medieval bestiary written in Spanish, furnished with 370 peculiar miniatures of gruesome sea monsters and other animals

One of the most beautiful and precious bestiaries of the Middle Ages: impressive depictions of animals and fantastic mythical creatures on luminous gold leaf, embedded in unusual ornamental landscapes

A moral-religious perspective on nature and one of the most beautiful representatives of this genre: the famous Oxford Bestiary with its more than 130 golden pictures of wild animals and fantastic mythical creatures

The whole variety of earthly fauna in bright colors and on golden backgrounds: over 100 animals and mythical creatures, often captured in dynamic motion in a magnificent Gothic bestiary

One of the earliest English Gothic bestiaries, now preserved in St. Petersburg: intriguing depictions of animals against golden backgrounds and colorful frames in a luxurious copy of the popular animal book

164 colorful miniatures of native, non-European and wondrous animals and hybrid creatures for a bestseller of medieval natural history: one of the most beautiful surviving bestiaries of the Middle Ages