bestiary
n.,
pl. 3ar#ies 5ML bestiarium < L bestiarius, relating to beasts < bestia, BEAST6 a type of medieval natural history book with descriptions and moralistic and religious interpretations of actual and mythical animals

For the high and the mights of Middle Ages, an extremely expensive predecessor of the coffee table b;ook.
I couldn't find one with authentic ancient pictures, but here is URL with a lot of information:
http://www.gloriana.nu/bestiary.html
another fun place to browse:
http://www.geocities.com/synergy_two/mediev.html

...as opposed to "worstiary," the equivalent type of medieval book (originally written in Mittelhochdeutsch middle high German), said to describe actual and mythical types of sausage?