- Bestiaries
 - Describes the development of bestiaries during the Middle Ages and explains the symbolism of different animals. - Bestiaries - Catholic Encyclopedia
- Information about medieval bestiaries, books of real and mythical animals whose characteristics were figuratively treated as religious symbols of Christ, the devil, the virtues and vices.
- Bestiaro Bestiary
- Online exhibit featuring images from French bestiaries of the Middle Ages. From the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
- Bestiary - Encyclopedia Mythica
- Collection of old European stories, each based on a description of certain qualities of an animal, plant, or even stone.
- Bestiary - The Getty
- Covers the use and popularity of bestiaries in medieval Europe and provides illustrations from Hugo de Fouilloy's c. 1270 manuscript. From the Getty Museum.
- Bestiary - Wikipedia
- Hyperlinked article about the medieval book that has short descriptions of various real or imaginary animals, birds, and even rocks.
- Bestiary: A Book of Beasts
- Text of T. H. White's English translation of a 12th century bestiary. From the University of Wisconsin.
- British Library: Harley 4751
- Offers a bibliographic description and images from a 13th century bestiary.
- Medieval Bestiaries and the Birth of Zoology
- Traces zoological writing from a 5th-century manuscript known as the Physiologus to illustrated bestiary manuscripts to modern treatises.
- Middle English Physiologus: A Critical Translation and Commentary
(PDF) - A modern translation of the Middle English Physiologus.
- Red Winged Lion: An Illuminated Page in the Style of Aberdeen
- Explains how bestiaries evolved as a literary form during the Middle Ages and describes the making of a modern bestiary page.
- Royal Danish Library: Bestiarius GKS 1633
- Online version of a 15th century bestiary illustrated with more than 100 drawings.
- Royal Danish Library: Philippe de Thaon's Bestiary, GKS 3466
- Online version of de Thaon's c. 1300 guide to animals and their characteristics.
- Sancti Epiphanii ad Physiologus / Saint Epiphianius on the Physiologus
- Online facsimile of a 1588 edition of the Physiologus, a set of moralized animal stories which were the basis of the medieval bestiary. From the University of Victoria.
- The Aberdeen Bestiary
- Online versions of the Physiologus with images, translations, and editorial comments.
- The History of Animals by Aristotle
- Aristotle's zoological natural history book, Historia Animalium, which describes various species and their anatomies including fish, shellfish, and other animals. Translation by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.
- The Medieval Bestiary
- Records some of the animal stories and depictions that were immensely popular throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East during the Middle Ages.
- The Physiologus - Wikipedia
- Medieval poetical literature which described animals, birds, fantastic creatures, stones, and plants, together with the moral and symbolic qualities of the animals.
- What Is a Bestiary?
- Traces the origins of bestiary, various families of bestiary text, and cycles.
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