# Bestiary

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MINIATURIST, English](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882>)
- Date: 1151-1200
- Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Ashmole 1511\)

## Commentary

The miniature on folio 86v depicts a whale. The whale floats on its back and unsuspecting sailors, mistaking it for an island, land on it, and it then plunges down with them into the sea.

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- [Acts of the Abbots](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/acts-of-the-abbots-r0b9241f524725b>)
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- [Amesbury Psalter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/amesbury-psalter-r6f10556b4ab655>)
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- [Apocalypse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/miniaturist-english-r118f7fac040882/apocalypse-r135f15fe5b6421>)
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- [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>)
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- [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>)