# Bestiary

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/bestiary-r20e1d05b6a359f>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [MINIATURIST, English](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882>)
- Date: 1201-1250
- Technique: Manuscript \(Sloane MS 3544\)

## Commentary

This English parchment codex, written in Latin, contains 44 folios with 112 miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. The miniature on folio 23v depicts cranes. On sentry duty they keep themselves awake by holding a stone in their claw; if they fall asleep the stone drops. The bird on the right is asleep with its head buried in its feathers.

## Related artworks

- [Acts of the Abbots](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/acts-of-the-abbots-r0b9241f524725b>)
- [Alphonso Psalter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/alphonso-psalter-rccd14dc082dd3c>)
- [Amesbury Psalter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/amesbury-psalter-r6f10556b4ab655>)
- [Anatomical figure](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/anatomical-figure-r3b948b9f8ab115>)
- [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/angels-turning-the-spheres-of-the-universe-r6d59cf8f57332f>)
- [Apocalypse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/apocalypse-r135f15fe5b6421>)
- [Barberini Gospels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/barberini-gospels-r5dc9a05c559bde>)
- [Barberini Gospels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/barberini-gospels-rb3c3ca08e53ca5>)
- [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/beda-venerabilis-the-life-of-st-cuthbert-r018d434d10dc91>)
- [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/benedictional-of-archbishop-robert-r291248910ba02f>)
- [Bestiary and Lapidary \(&#39;the Rochester Bestiary&#39;\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/bestiary-and-lapidary-the-rochester-bestiary-r1a7b0a4a30ff96>)
- [Bestiary and Lapidary \(&#39;the Rochester Bestiary&#39;\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/bestiary-and-lapidary-the-rochester-bestiary-rcf8abd68f4eeae>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)