"This is a huge and beautiful book that feels almost like a trip to the Cloisters between two covers." &#8212New York Daily News

"Rarely have earnest scholarship and sheer wonder come together as comfortably as they have here. And as magical as the original artworks surely are, this unique volume is literally better than the real thing, since it allows us to ogle them closely." &#8212Fine Art Connoisseur

"Every year I try to reserve the adjective "stunning" for one book. This is it." &#8212The Seattle Times holiday gift guide

Autorentext

Christian Heck, professor of art history at the University of Lille, is an authority on illuminated manuscripts.

Klappentext

Now in an affordable edition, a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it