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Bartholomaeus

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Bartholomaeus (Anglicus)

 or Bartholomew the Englishman

(flourished c. 1220–40) Franciscan encyclopedist. Though primarily interested in scripture and theology, in his 19-volume encyclopedia On the Properties of Things he covered all customary knowledge of his time and was the first to make readily available the views of Greek, Jewish, and Arabic scholars on medical and scientific subjects. The encyclopedia was printed in English translation c. 1495.
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The volume frequently reflects an additional sense of inundation from the fearful extent of explanatory systems circulating in the canonical texts, which are, after all, not only anatomical, philosophical, and medical but also encyclopedic: Galen, Aristotle, Hippocrates, la Primaudaye, the wonderful Bartholomaeus Anglicanus as mediated by Stephen Batman, Thomas Wright, Robert Burton, many others.
Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England by Krier, Theresa / Shakespeare Studies
In traveling to Bourges, he describes the genial and invigorating company of the humanists Joachim Polites, Balthazar de Kunring, and Bartholomaeus Latomus and the sculptor Jan Swans, thereby indicating his place in these intellectual groups.
Itineraria (Carnets de Voyage); Correspondance by Gilman, Donald / Renaissance Quarterly
25) In Columbia University MS Plimpton 263 the Charter, along with another short English prose work called The Medis of the Masse, accompanies Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum in an impressive compilation produced for Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wiverton, documented owner of a number of books.
The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and its role in manuscript ... by Boffey, Julia / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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