For the precise wording, I haven't seen anything similar. But the
concept of aquiline rejuvenation seems common enough in the bestiary
tradition, if I can go by the Middle English bestiary and by
Bartholomaeus Anglicus' encyclopedia:
Hanneke Wirtjes, ed. The Middle English Physiologus. EETS os 299.
1991
Dora Faraci, ed. Il bestiario Medio Inglese. L'Aquila, Roma:
Japadre,
1990. This is handy because it also adds a Latin text of
Theobald's Physiologus. See pp. 42-45.
Bartholomaeus Anglicus. De rerum proprietatibus. Frankfurt 1601;
rpt. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1964. XII.1 esp. p. 516.
On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's translation of
Bartholomaeus
Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1975. XII.2, esp. p. 605
Sources are in _Bartholomaeus Anglicus and His Encyclo-
pedia_ ed. M.C. Seymour et al. (1992), keyed to the
Trevisa text by page and line.
Wirtjes' bibliography (pp. xciv-xcv) reminds me that one must often
return to F.J. Carmody's editions of the _Physiologus latinus_ (a
book from Paris 1935, and an article in _Univ. of California
Publications in Classical Philology_ 12 [1933-44]: 95-134). But
there is also (which I have not seen) P.T. Eden's ed. of _Theobaldi
'Physiologus'_ (Leyden & Cologne 1972).
That should be enough for a start, but the text of immediate
concern could well be just referring to common knowledge, not a
specific source.
Juris
Juris G. Lidaka Dept. of English
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