Bestiary, Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 Gustave Kahn a comic satire of Chinese

a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy

today they seem so strange that we can hardly believe that they even existed

and L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

" -- Michael Howard ― Times Literary Supplement

so far from home

Bestiary, Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 Gustave Kahn a comic satire of ChineseBestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764, translated by Richard Barber ISBN 9780851157535 an attractive 205 page paperback with flaps, 5. 5 x 8. 5 inches, published by Boydell Press *** A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Bestiaries are a particularly characteristic product of medieval England, and give a unique insight into the medieval mind.