This table aims to provide a quick overview of the copies of the Physiologus used in the edition. It contains an alphabetical list of their short character abbreviations (sigla); their short names are shown in the righthand column of the table. The names are hyperlinks and clicking them opens a page with the description of the relevant manuscript.
The sigla are widely used throughout the site as a brief notation for referring to the copies.

This table shows visually which copies belong to which of the translations.

This table contains the following information about the copies, whose sigla are ordered alphabetically in the first column: to which translation the chapters included in it belong (1, 2, 3 or 2-3); how many chapters it contains (Number column); exactly which animal chapters it contains - when a chapter is present in a particular copy, the cell of the table where the copy row and the chapter column intersect is filled by a small dark square.
Clicking on the arrow to the right of the siglum and translation opens the page from the Copies menu on which detailed information about the translation, the copy, its content and structure is shown.
Clicking on a siglum colours the row in the table in which the contents of the copy are indicated.
Clicking on the arrow under the name of an animal opens the page from the Birds and Beasts menu on which the collated versions and full texts of chapters about that animal are given.
Clicking on the name of an animal colours the column in the table which shows the copies that the chapter appears in.
Clicking on a cell in the table colours the row and column in which it appears, making it easy to see which chapters appear in any given copy and which copies include any given chapter.