Dear Prof. Drigsdahl,
Thanks very much for your message below. It is interesting and full of
information. And be sure that I am going to access the web page soon.
But: it is about something else that I meant. Actually, I don't think that
there is any connection between the Griffoni (in its ethnic-social meaning)
and the bestiary domain.
Many thanks, anyway,
All the best,
Serban Marin,
Bucharest, Romania,
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----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Drigsdahl <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Griffoni
> Dear Serban Marin
>
> The Gryphon is always described and depicted in medieval Bestiaries. Most
> of the text being normally a quotation from Isidorus. Before you proceed
> with your studies is it worth taking a look at the text. It was generally
> known to all educated people from the early 13th-15th century.
> There is a link on my website to a facsimile edition in The Royal Library
> in Copenhagen:
>
> http://www.chd.dk/gui/gks1633_guide.html
>
> (go down to folio 8, where a click on the folio number to the left will
> fetch you a facsimile picture of the page in an English Bestiarium.
> Text: "Grifes vocatur eo quod sit animal pennatum et quadrupes. Hoc genus
> ferarum in hyperboreis nascitur locis vel montibus. Omni parte corporis
sui
> leoni. Alis vero et facie, aquilis simile. Equis vehementer infestum. Nam
> et homines visos decerpit."// [Isidorus XII,ii,17]
>
> Best wishes
> Erik Drigsdahl
>
> At 21:29 +0200 29/01/2001, Serban Marin wrote:
> >I have a question: could anybody give some examples of medieval works
that
> >mention the denomination of "griffoni" or "griffons"?
> >I mention that generally these "griffoni" could have a double
connotation:
> >an ethnical one (meaning "Greeks") and a social one (meaning "peasants"),
> >both of them leading directly or indirectly to a pejorative sense:
persons
> >of law condition.
>
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