On this page, you can learn more about the various western medieval manuscripts in St John’s College Library that engage with the topic of morality.
MS 61
MS 61 is a bestiary, a kind of encyclopedia of animals (both real and fantastical) with moral lessons. The folio shown here treats griffins and elephants. MS 61 was produced in York in the late thirteenth century and is extensively illuminated.
A full catalogue entry is available here.
MS 137
MS 137 contains a copy of Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius moralizatus, a moralisation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This manuscript was produced in England at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and it was once owned by Thomas Eborall (master of Whittington College London, 1444–1464).
A full catalogue entry is available here.