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Title
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Medieval Beasts
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Ann Payne
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Creator
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Payne, Ann
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:53:28Z
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1992-07
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1990
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:53:28Z
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Date Issued
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1990
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Abstract
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This is a pretty book offering Payne's sense of typical patterns of presentation in bestiaries, with good supporting photographs and illustrations. Aesop is touched on in a number of ways. In the section on Antelope (24-5) there is no reference to Aesop but plenty to drinking and having horns locked in trees. Beaver (32) presents the Aesopic nature-lore story of severed testes. Ape (36-7) mentions Aesop and conflates Babrius' and Avianus' stories about the monkey mother with an illustration; see also the back cover of the dust jacket. Fox (45) tells the story (from the Reynard cycle?) of playing dead and attracting birds and then devouring them. Dog (50-1) grabs at the meat reflected in the water. Not from Aesop but too good to pass up is this comment on Parrot (65): an occasional blow with an iron bar will improve its understanding!
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Identifier
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712302050
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1439 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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British Library
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London
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Subject
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ND3339.P38 1990
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Tangential book
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole