Detail of a miniature of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,
Miniatures of sheepand of rams. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,
Miniatures of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), book
(f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Hybrids, a pig,and a jester Pseudo-Aristotle England
'Liber T. Carri' (f. 1).Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. Pigand jester Pseudo-Aristotle England
sheep or oxe swelle That any worm hath ete or worm y stonge Take water of that welle and wassh his tonge And it is hool anon and forthermore Of pokkes and of Scabbe and euery sore Shal euery
a Chauntrye for soules And ran to Londoū , vn to Seint Poules And leet his sheep , encombred in the Myre He sette noght. his benefice to hyre By his clennesse , how þt his sheep sholde lyue Wel
parysh moche and lyte Vpon his feet and in his hand a staffe This noble ensample to his sheep he yaffe That firste he wroght and afterward he taght Oute of the gospell tho wordes he kaught. And this figure
Ther was enclosid rip and sad corage And in gret reuerence and charite Hir olde poore fadre fostred she A few sheep spynnyng on felde she kepte She wolde nat ben ydel til she slepte And whan she whom ward
the drought and by the Reyne The yeldyng of his seed and of his greyne His lordes sheep his neet and his deyrye. His swyn his hors his stoore and his pultrye Was holly in his Reues gouernyngã And by
in [to, interl.] shroudes: as I a sheep were." Dowell is headed: "Passus octanus de visione. Et incipit inquisicio prima de Dowell" (f. 36). Dobet and Dobest have no headings but "Passus xv." and " Passus xixus." respectively (ff. 69,