Resumen de Du “Bestiaire d’amours moralisé” aux “Dits des bêtes et des oiseaux”, un réemploi iconographique
In order to illustrate Le Bestiaire d’amours moralisé sur les bêtes et oiseaux in verse, a series of 77 woodcuts (sketches featuring animals) were engraved in the Parisian Trepperel workshop of the Ecu de France, between 1511 and 1521. However, the only known manuscript witness of this Bestiary, the ms. Français 1951 (BnF), dated at the end of the 13th century, is decorated with illuminations, which are indeed the iconographic premises of the Trepperel series.
Le Bestiaire d’amours moralisé was reissued at the Ecu de France, but with a series of woodcuts copied on the first series. It was then that the Trepperels published a very different text: Les Dits des bêtes et des oiseaux, using part of the series of engraved copied woodcuts, thus transforming them into just decorative pictures.
