These works, which aren't Bibles but are often (*) illuminated manuscripts, typically begin with the creation of heaven and earth.
One of these works is found in the bottom marginalia of the Queen Mary Psalter, where a work of Guillame le Clerc was  expanded to relate to various psalms. In many of these works, including the ones named for Ashmole and Aberdeen, the  Etymologiae of Saint Isidore is meticulously copied. These works derived their style from the anonymous second-century Greek text called the Physiologus. These works, which aren't Bibles but are often (*) illuminated manuscripts, typically begin with the creation of heaven and earth. Each of the entries in these works typically gave a moral lesson as well as a  description of the natural history of the subject. For 10 points, name these compendia of real and fictional animals from the  middle ages.
One of these works is found in the bottom marginalia of the Queen Mary Psalter, where a work of Guillame le Clerc was  expanded to relate to various psalms.
bestiaries [accept word forms; or bestiarum vocabulum; prompt on illuminated manuscripts before mentioned]