Barthelemy the English
See also: Barthelemy
Barthelemy the English or Bartholomeus Anglicus , is a brother franciscain 13th century. It was one of the first Encyclopédiste S with its Livre of the properties of the things (in Latin, Liber of proprietatibus rerum ) written between 1230 and 1240.
In the Years 1220, it attends the university of Paris, where its lessons on the Bible meet a great success. In 1230, the general of the order sends it in Germanie as a reader, in the new province franciscaine of Saxony. It finishes its Livre of the properties of the things to Magdeburg towards 1240.
Barthelemy the English was confused a long time with Barthélemy de Glanville.
Property of the things
The Latin edition is made up of nineteen books. In spite of the annotations moralisatrices, she is regarded as a scientific popularizing work.Success was such as it was translated successively into Occitan, French, English, Dutch, German until the 14th century. The most known edition is that of Jean Corbechon, hermit of the order of Saint-Augustin, for the king Charles V.
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