| Citation |
James, M.R. (compiler)., 1826. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. Manuscripts. London. Chiswick Press. xix, 210 p. |
| Comments on the publication |
20 col. pls. No. 107. Bestiary of late XII century (circa 1170) of 120 folios, given by Philip, Canon of Lincoln, in 1187 to the Augustinian priory of Radford, now Worksop. The section entitled "De naturis piscium," folio 68b, is illustrated by a figure of two men in a ship: a winged fish, the "serra" is represented in the air above. No. 108. Of the government of health. A treatise in French in four parts on health and diet, dating from about the middle of the XV century. Among the finely drawn illustrations is one (fol. 132) showing fish in a stream. Jameson, R. Cows, horses and sheep fed on fish in Persia [Quotation from Fraser's Travels] Edinburgh New Phil. Journ., 1826, 1, 197. |
