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Hi, I'd like to add a link to The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a 21st Century Bestiary (http://barelyimaginedbeings.blogspot.com/) to the links section, and tried to do so without logging in. A bot removed the new link as spam, but I think it's a legitimate addition. There is already a link to at least one other contemporary bestiary on the page. Caspar81 (talk) 16:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC) Caspar Henderson[reply]

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Bestiarium vocabulum

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The Latin "bestiarium vocabulum" doesn't really make much sense to me. Literally, it's "the term bestiary". I know it is widely used in gaming these days, but I suspect it is all based on a misunderstanding. There appears to be a medieval manuscript (which, alas, I have no access to) that contains the phrase "bestiarium vocabulum proprie convenit leonibus, pardis..." which would translate as "the term bestiary is proper for lions etc.". This, in turn, is almost literally taken from Isidore of Seville, XII, 2, "bestiarum vocabulum proprie convenit leonibus, pardis...". Note, however, the missing i in the first word, which makes it the plural genitive of bestia: Isidore says "the word 'beasts' is proper for lions...". The medieval copyist may inadvertently have put the second i in, if it is indeed in the manuscript. No big deal, the suffix -arium for a collection of things is good Latin. Nevertheless, "bestiarium vocabulum", taken on its own, is quite bizarre. Dumbox (talk) 06:08, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]