Liber monstrorum de diversis generibus
- Date of account
- 8th–9th century
- Location
- Anglo-Saxon England or western Europe
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Liber monstrorum de diversis generibus is an early medieval catalogue of monstrous peoples, animals, and marvels drawing on biblical, classical, and vernacular traditions. It is useful for UAP research as a control text: reports of strange beings in medieval literature may reflect encyclopedic transmission rather than observed encounters. Manuscript dating, provenance, and source borrowing are debated, and the work’s descriptions are not instrumented observations. Researchers can compare its categories with later “ancient astronaut” readings while preserving its literary and ethnographic context.
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