The bestiaries tell us about the precious body parts which are coveted by hunters, such as the beaver's medicinal testicles, or the horn of the unicorn. The lynx' urine was said to solidify into a ...

Originally intended for religious education, bestiaries also provided literary entertainment to society’s upper crust in medieval Europe. Brilliantly colored and lettered, the books told stories ...

The first true bestiaries—exhaustive anthologies of the natural world—appeared in Ancient Greece. Originally, they were just a means of cataloguing and describing all known animals and plants ...

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The fable of the unicorn was one of the more famous passages in what are known as bestiaries, gorgeous compendiums of creatures both real and imagined that sold like mad---second only to the Bible ...

Bestiaries extolled the glory of the Christian God through the application of vivid splendor to his creation, ... (painted ceiling panels, carved column capitals), ...

The elephant is carved on to a gemstone, which experts believe is probably a carnelian A medieval gold seal which shows an elephant carrying a castle on its back has become only the third of its ...