Physiologus latinus (versio B)
A Latin bestiary manuscript of about 850, copied by hand on vellum, with an ownership seal of the Bibliotheca Bernensis, the library at Bern, probably for monastic or scholarly readers. The pictures show a circular black library seal with a crowned coat of arms beside brown and orange rubricated initial letters with flourished strokes and cursive text. A designer could take the seal's ring-lettered roundel layout and the decorative capital F's bold stroke contrast with fine ink script.
