ShukerNature: CRYPTOZOOLOGY IN THE VATICAN

Karl Shuker writes, at Shuker Nature. Delightful!

ShukerNature: CRYPTOZOOLOGY IN THE VATICAN: A few years ago, a friend bought me a wonderful little book entitled And To Every Beast..., one in a series of beautifully-illustrated thematic mini-volumes collectively entitled Treasures of the Vatican Library. All of them combine biblical quotations with illustrations selected from various tomes or manuscripts held in the vast collection of the Vatican's library (which contains over one million printed books, as well as 150,000 manuscripts and some 100,000 prints).