Animal mentions in the travel accounts of Guillebert de Lannoy, Bertrandon de la Broquière, Anselm Adornes and Joos van Ghistele

Dataset of all animals mentioned in the travel accounts of Joos van Ghistele, Guillebert de Lannoy, Anselm Adornes and Bertrandon de la Broquière.

The page numbers refer to the pages in the following editions of the travel accounts:

Bertrandon de la Broquière. Le voyage d’outremer de Bertrandon de La Broquière, premier écuyer tranchant et conseiller de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne. Edited by Charles Schefer. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1892. Can be consulted online on https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1037921

Ghillebert de Lannoy. Oeuvres de Ghillebert de Lannoy, voyageur, diplomate et moraliste. Edited by Charles Potvin. Leuven: Imprimerie de P. et J. Lefever, 1878. Can be consulted online on https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k102047r

Adorno, Jean. Itinéraire d’Anselme Adorno en Terre sainte: 1470-1471. Edited by Jacques Heers and Georgette de Groer. Sources d’histoire médiévale. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1978. https://www.worldcat.org/title/itineraire-danselme-adorno-en-terre-sainte-1470-1471/oclc/248218555

Zeebout, Ambrosius. Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele. Edited by R. J. G. A. A. Gaspar. Hilversum: Verloren, 1998. Can be consulted online on https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/zeeb002tvoy01_01/index.php

The following information can be found in the animal index

– The referenced source edition: JVG (Joos van Ghistele), AA (Anselm Adornes), BDLB (Bertrandon de la Broquière) or GDL (Guillebert de Lannoy).

– Animal name: the modern English common name of the mentioned animal.

– Page: the page number in the source edition.

– Original name: the name given by the author to the animal and the original source fragment.

– Location of the animal: the location (city, country, …) of the referenced animal, sometimes unidentified.

– Observed by the writer? Did the writer encounter this animal himself: yes, no or maybe

– Referring to another source? Do the fragment and the information about the animal originate from a source outside the author’s observation? These can be oral or written sources

This dataset was used to research the topic of animal depictions and attitudes towards animals in late medieval travel accounts. The dataset forms the basis of a (Dutch) Master’s thesis at Ghent University in 2020, which can be downloaded from (https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:002862696) and a forthcoming article in Reinardus Yearbook.

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