Miscellany: Physiologus; other texts
A early sixteenth-century manuscript miscellany dated 1510, made by unnamed scribes and illuminators and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, containing the Physiologus and other texts. The three pictures are loose pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches on aged parchment: a bird with wide eyes and a curled tail, a saddled horse-like beast in profile, and a wild bearded man with flowing hair. A designer might take their loose, hand-drawn linework and warm sepia wash as a model for naturalistic medieval creature studies.
