Northumberland Bestiary
The Northumberland Bestiary is an illuminated manuscript bestiary, dating to around 1250-1260 and containing 112 miniature paintings. It may have been produced in northern England - its miniatures are directly inspired by a 1200-1210 bestiary now in the British Library.
Its first known owner was Robert Turges, a gentleman in Melcombe Regis, Dorset around 1508-1509, as shown on folio 73. It was later owned by Grace Fitzjames, also in Dorset. It was inherited by the Dukes of Northumberland and held at Alnwick Castle until being sold at Sotheby's in London on 29 November 1990 for £2.97 million to a private buyer. It was finally acquired by its present owner, the J. Paul Getty Museum, in June 2007.
