The Leopard, In A Bestiary
Description: The text of this manuscript concerns the characteristics of different kinds of animals, plants and stones. It seems to have been made for a librarian of the Benedictine abbey at Rochester, and its artist also worked on a Psalter probably made for a London patron; he therefore probably moved around Southeast England. The illumination was left unfinished, however, so it may be that the librarian ran out of money, or that the artist was called away to another project. The leopard was supposed to be the result of a pard mating with a lioness. One of its characteristics was its great speed: the artist has therefore shown it chasing a stag.
Date: [1230]
Date of creation: c.1230
Type: StillImage; Illuminated manuscript
Format: jpeg; 29.2; 19.7; Centimetres; Ink and pigments on vellum
Subject: Kent, marvels, natural science, sermons, preaching, gothic; Manuscripts, medieval -- Great Britain; 091
Identifier: 011ROY000012F13U00007000; Royal MS 12 F.xiii
Is part of: Illuminated Manuscripts. Collect Britain
Rights: Copyright © British Library Board
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: United Kingdom
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