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ID: 700002323
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002323
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Bestiary (manuscript (document genre); Unknown Franco-Flemish illuminator; Hugo of Fouilloy, author...; about 1270; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 83.MR.173; Ms. Ludwig XV 3)
Note: Part of the compiled manuscript "De Natura Avium; De Pastoribus et Ovibus; Bestiarium; Mirabilia Mundi; Philosophia Mundi; On the Soul"; 102 folios + 5 flyleaves, 1 full-page miniature, 3 three-quarter page miniatures, 25 half-page miniatures, 35 quarter-page miniatures, 2 decorated borders, 2 large decorated initials, 3 inter-column miniatures.
Titles:
Bestiary (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Ms. Ludwig XV 3 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: component
Work Types:
manuscript (documents) [300028569] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>)
bestiary [300201056]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, reference sources)
book [300028051]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:
manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1270

Creator Display:
Unknown Franco-Flemish illuminator; Hugo of Fouilloy, author [preferred,JPGM]
illuminator unknown Franco-Flemish (Franco-Flemish cultural designation) [500125234]
author Hugo of Fouilloy (French author, active ca. 1110- ca. 1174) [500102247]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 83.MR.173; Ms. Ludwig XV 3
Other: Creation: Thérouanne [7008478] Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with brown morocco
tempera [300015062]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)
gold leaf [300264831]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
parchment (animal material) [300011851]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)
pasteboard (paper) [300162474]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>)
morocco (leather) [300227857]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by process>, vegetable-tanned leather, vegetable-tanned goatskin)

Dimensions: Leaf: 19.1 x 14.3 cm (Leaf: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)
Cultures:
Franco-Flemish (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Gothic (Medieval) [300020775] (preferred,style)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, Medieval styles and periods, Medieval (European))

General Subject:
literary (preferred)
animals

Specific Subjects:
birds (animals) [300266506]
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum)) (AAT)
abbots [300162118]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, religious (people), monks (people)) (AAT)
wild animals [300310185]
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), <animals by location or context>) (AAT)
monasteries (built complexes) [300000641]
.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, religious complexes, religious communities (built complexes)) (AAT)
Jesus Christ [901000087]
.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)
bestiary [300201056]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, reference sources) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed upper pastedown, in blue ink, "At Sion College, London, there is a copy of these works dated 1277 [i.e., Ms. Ludwig XV 4] . . . The pictures in the Sion College Ms are identical with those in this Ms as regards position and subject, but are of coarser execution. The name Physiologus is not mis-written Phylosophus as in this Ms." (Sydney Cockerell's notes). Inscribed lower pastedowm, in pencil, "i-x 8, xi 1,3-6,8, xii-xiii 8=102 leaves. / HPK per JSK I/70" (collation by John S. Kebabian for H.P. Kraus).
Typeface: Littera textualis currens
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
............... De Natura Avium; De Pastoribus et Ovibus; Bestiarium; Mirabilia Mundi; Philosophia Mundi; On the Soul
Sources and Contributors:
Bestiary........ [JPGM]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig XV 3........ [VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]
Note:
English ..... [JPGM,VP]
..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
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