Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 216
(Livre des proprietés des choses)
Codicology
| Produced: | Paris, about 1400 |
| Location: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France |
| Type: | Encyclopedia |
| Language: | French |
| Folios: | 343 |
| Author: | Bartholomeus Anglicus |
| Illustrated: | Yes |
| Script: | Gothic bastard |
| Dimensions: | Height: 42 cm Width: 31.5 cm |
Folio 283r
Description
The Livre des propriétés des choses of Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Bartholomew the Englishman), in the French translation done by Jean Corbechon. The illustrations do not depict animals individually , but only in groups (birds, mammals, etc.).
- 1r-11r: Tables
- 13r-14v: Prologue -
- 14v-19v: Book I - Of god and of the divine names which are said of god
- 19v-30r: Book II - Of the properties of both good and bad angels
- 30r-42r: Book III - Of the human body
- 43r-53r: Book IV - Of man and his parts
- 53r-90r: Book V Of the body and its parts of which the holy scripture mentions
- 91r-104r: Book VI
- 104r-132r: Book VII - Of diseases which occur to human body
- 132r-150r: Book VII Of the properties of natural things
- 151r-160r: Book IX
- 160v-163v: Book X - Of the matter in which material things are made
- 163v-171r: Book XI - Of the air and its passions
- 171r-184r: Book XII - Of the air
- 184-193: Book XIII
- 193-202: Book XIV - Of the earth of its parts and its properties
- 202-228v: Book XV - Of the provinces and parts of the land
- 228v-243r: Book XVI
- 243r-282v: Book XVII
- 283r-322v: Book XVIII
- 322v-338r: Book XIX
- 338r-342v: Treatise on the measurements of weights and sounds
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