Grunty Animals to Color Volume Two

Description

Around 1270, the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant set out to describe everything nature had to offer, in more than 16,500 lines of verse. He called it Der Naturen Bloeme — The Flower of Nature — and drew it largely from Thomas of Cantimpré’s Latin encyclopedia Liber de natura rerum. Maerlant wrote, in Dutch, thirteen books covering everything from strange peoples and four-legged beasts to birds, fish, snakes, trees, herbs, and gemstones.

You can find over 300 colored image files from Der Naturen Bloeme on wikimedia.org.

We’ve also reproduced all 36 original illustrations in color on the cover of this book.

We’ve inserted “blank” pages between the drawings so you don’t have to worry about your markers bleeding through. But instead of leaving those pages truly blank, we’ve added relevant bits of information for your enjoyment (in very light ink).