MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts.

The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the " marginal " decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this work.

It is not uncommon for video games with a large variety of enemies ( especially role-playing video games ) to include a bestiary of sorts.

The main living heritage is the Popular Retinue, a great parade of dances, bestiary and spoken dances-and the human towers.

The bestiary explains that while in residence at the Tower of London, the elephant enjoyed a diet of prime cuts of beef and expensive red wine, and is claimed to have died in 1257 from drinking too much wine.

An ornate carousel displaying a fantastic bestiary is housed in a circular building near the children's playground.

* Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Serpents is published in London by William Jaggard.

* Edward Topsell's bestiary The Historie of Foure-Footed Beasts is published in London by William Jaggard.

The bestiary, popular in the Middle Ages, is another example of a compendium.

" According to the in-game bestiary, Belias is classified as a fusion of man and beast and considered a mistake by the gods.

According to the in-game bestiary, the Blood Gigas is " a cruel and headless giant, born from the spilled blood of a demon.

* The peryton, as stated before, is included among the bestiary of the game Dungeons and Dragons.

* Details of enemies, including techniques on defeating individual enemies ( especially bosses ), the segment for minor enemies is commonly referred to as a bestiary.

: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense is a guide and bestiary of Gensokyo, as told by Hieda no Akyu.

The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci also made his own bestiary.

The basic set also included a short " bestiary " of creatures native to the world of Volturnus ( the setting for the introductory module included with the basic boxed set ), along with rules for creating new creatures.

There were also several supplemental books produced that provided more information about the Fighting Fantasy universe, including a comprehensive bestiary of monsters and a sample adventure.

Adeliza also assumed her right as a patron of literature and several works, including a bestiary by Philip de Thaon that was dedicated to her.

A bestiary kept by the castle's librarian, who also functions as a shopkeeper, shows the different monsters encounted by the player, and the items they dropped when defeated.

There are also some subtle changes to item and enemy descriptions, and the Librarian's bestiary has been reorganized.

The Roleplay book also contained a bestiary of Monsters that the warriors might encounter and employed a number of ‘ D66 ’ tables so Warriors could face more new and terrible foes.

Agents deemed appropriate are also given the password to an unpublished work that acts a bestiary and a research faculty for BookWorld creatures.

The earliest bestiary in the form in which it was later popularized was an anonymous 2nd century Greek volume called the Physiologus, which itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle's Historia Animalium and various works by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Aelian and other naturalists.

In fact the bestiary has been expanded beyond the source in the Norman bestiary of Guillaume le Clerc to ninety animals.

The bestiary for this savannah landscape reads like a " who's-who " for some of the most unique creatures to inhabit North America – animals such as: Geochelone, a giant bathtub-sized tortoise ; Aiolornis incredibilis, the largest flying bird of the northern hemisphere, with wing span ; Paramylodon, Megalonyx and Nothrotheriops, giant ground sloths, some with bony armor within their skin ; Pewelagus, a very small rabbit ( paleontologists can name with a sense of humor ); Borophagus, a hyena-like dog ; Acrtodus, a giant short-faced bear ; Smilodon, a saber-toothed cat ; Miracinonyx, the North American cheetah ; Mammuthus imperator, the largest known mammoth ; Tapirus, an extinct tapir ; Equus enormis and Equus scotti, two species of extinct Pleistocene horse ; Gigantocamelus a giant camel ; and Capromeryx, the dwarf pronghorn.

These features are contained in " Pandora's Box ", a feature returning from Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, and include a detailed encyclopedia of the Panzer world, a bestiary of defeated enemies, an archive of concept art, extra bonus missions that expand the story of the main game, statistics tracking, a cutscene viewer ( including movies from earlier Panzer Dragoon games ), and even a complete port of the original Panzer Dragoon.

* The Aberdeen Bestiary Project-University of Aberdeen, Online version of the bestiary.

" The Leopard " from the 13th-century bestiary entitled " Rochester Bestiary.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a contemporary bestiary of sorts, the Book of Imaginary Beings, which collects imaginary beasts from bestiaries and fiction.

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

John Henry Fleming's Fearsome Creatures of Florida ( Pocol Press, 2009 ) borrows from the medieval bestiary tradition to impart moral lessons about the environment.

White's translation of a medieval bestiary in the Cambridge University library ; digitized by the University of Wisconsin – Madison libraries.

Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it can be seen in his bestiary at Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an accompanying text revealing that at the time, Europeans believed that elephants did not have knees and so were unable to get up if they fell over.

The bestiary contains a drawing depicting an elephant on its back being dragged along the ground by another elephant, with a caption stating that elephants lacked knees.

Other recent releases included a large book of pre-constructed Powers, a set of pre-generated Martial Arts styles, abilities and skills, a large bestiary, a new grimoire for Fantasy Hero and a three-volume set of villains for Champions.

The predecessor of the medieval bestiary, compiled in Late Antiquity and known as Physiologus ( Φυσιολόγος ), popularized an elaborate allegory in which a unicorn, trapped by a maiden ( representing the Virgin Mary ), stood for the Incarnation.

This features databases such as a bestiary and a gallery of artwork created in development.

* http :// www. pbs. org / wgbh / nova / abyss / life / bestiary. html

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