Bartholomaeus Anglicus

Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203–1272),

The work De proprietatibus rerum was written at the school of Magdeburg in Saxonia and intended for the use of students and the general public.^[1] Bartholomew carefully notes the sources for the material included, although, at present, it is sometimes impossible to identify or locate some of them. His annotations give a good idea of the wide variety of works available to a medieval scholar.

The original Latin work was translated into French in 1372 and a number of manuscripts of the Latin and French versions survive. The work was later printed in numerous editions. John Trevisa produced an English translation in 1397. Extracts were compiled by Robert Steele under the title Medieval Lore: an Epitome (1893).^[4] A critical edition of Trevisa's translation appeared in 1975.^[5]

The work was organized in 19 books. The subjects of the books, in order, are

Sources as given by William Morris[6]

• Origen Adamantius
• Gilles de Corbeil
• Alain de Lille
• Albertus Magnus
• Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
• Alcuin
• Alexander Neckam
• Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī
• Alfred of Sareshel
• Al-Ghazali
• Ambrose
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Archelaus (geographer)^{[citation needed]}
• Aristotle
• Augustine of Hippo Saint Augustine
• Aurora, The: A metrical version of the Bible by Petrus Riga
• Averroes
• Solomon ibn Gabirol
• Avicenna
• Haymo of Faversham (died 1244).^[7]
• Hexameron
• Bede (673-735). The work by which he was best known in the 13th century was not his History but the works on the Calendar, etc.
• Jean Beleth
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Bestiarium: A collection of early myths on animals; of Eastern origin. There are many different forms of this work. All are founded on Physiologus.
• Boethius treatise on arithmetic
• Callisthenes pseudo:
  Alexander romance
• Cassiodorus De Septem Disciplinis
• Cato the Elder: On Agriculture
• Calcidius: A commentary on the Timaeus (dialogue) of Plato
• Cicero (107-44 BC). In SOMN. SCIPIONIS.
• School of Salerno
  .
• Cyprian (died 285). A Syriac astrologer, afterwards Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr in the Diocletian persecution.
• DAMASCENE (11th century). Quoted by Constantinus Afer. A physician.
• John Damascene
  (end of 12th century). An Arab physician.
• Damascius (c. 533). A Syrian commentator on Aristotle, who took refuge in Persia. Author of a work on wonders quoted by Photius.
• Pedanius Dioscorides
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: De Coelesti Hierarchia, and de divinis nominibus
• Aelius Donatus Grammarian.
• EUFICIUS (c. 600). A disciple of Gregory.
• Fabius Planciades Fulgentius or Fulgentius of Ruspe grammarian.
• Galen (131-210).
• Gilbertus Anglicus An English physician in France; wrote COMPENDIUM MEDICINAE.
• Pope Gregory I Moralia in Job.^[8]
• HALY The first medical work translated by Constantius Afercanus
• HERMES. In ALCHEMIA (not now extant).
• Hippocrates (460-351 BC).
• Huguccio (died 1210). A jurisconsult and writer on Grammar.
• HYGINUS, PSEUDO- (6th century). Writer on Astronomy.^[9] ?
• Pope Innocent III. (died 1216). Wrote "De Contemptu Mundi," etc.
• Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (c. 660). An Arab physician, who translated many Greek authors into Arabic.
• Isidore of Seville (died 636). Bishop of Seville. He wrote a work on Etymology in 20 books, one of the most popular works of the Middle Age.
• Jacques de Vitry (died 1240). A Crusading Bishop, afterwards Cardinal legate. Wrote an EXEMPLAR, and 3 books of Eastern and Western History.
• Jerome (340-420).
• Joseph ben Gorion (c. 900). Abridgment of Jewish History containing many legends.
• Josephus (37-95). Jewish historian.
• JORATH. DE ANIMALIBUS. A Syriac writer (?).^[10]
• LAPIDARIUM. See MARBODIUS DE GEMMIS.^[11] There are many treatises under this name.
• Pope Leo IX. (1054). See Jacques Paul Migne, Patrologia.
• Lucan (died 65). One of the most popular Latin poets of the Middle Age.
• medieval production by Odo Magdunensis
  , a French physician.
• Macrobius (c. 409). His commentary on the dream of Scipio was a favourite work in Medieval times.
• Martianus Capella (c. 400). Wrote a poem, THE MARRIAGE OF MERCURY AND PHILOLOGIA, treating of THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS, which was the standard text-book from the 5th century for the schools.
• Mashallah ibn Athari (c. 1100).
• METHODIUS, PSEUDO- (8th century). DE AGARINI.
• Michael Scot (c. 1235). At this time concerned in the translation of some Arabic works on Astronomy, and Aristotle's DE COELO and DE MUNDO DE ANIMA, and HISTORIA NATURALIS with commentaries.
• MISALATH ASTROLOGUS (?).
• Papias (lexicographer) (c. 1053). Grammarian. [Milan, 1467, etc.]
• Perspectiva Sciencia. According to William Morris this may be Bacon's, Peckham's, or Albertus Magnus', but he favors Peckham.
  Alhacen's De Aspectibus, a medieval Latin translation of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), was first cited in this compendium, dated about 1240.^[12]
• Petrus Comestor (died 1198). Named MAGISTER HISTORIARUM or Master of Histories, wrote an account of the world from the Creation, which, when translated into French, was called the "Mer des Histoires." A favourite Medieval book.
• PHILARETUS (1100). A writer on Medicine. date seems wrong here redirects to Theophilus Protospatharius The real Philaretus wrote on pulses
• Physiologus. A Syriac compilation of moralities on animal myths. It first appears in Western Europe as THEOBALDUS DE NATURIS XII. ANIMALIUM. Of Alexandrian origin, it dates from before the 4th century, and appears to have been altered at the will of each writer.
• PLATEARIUS SALERNITANUS (c. 1100) was Johannes, one of a family of physicians at Salerno.^[13] His work is called the PRACTICA. A book on the virtues of herbs. [Lugd., 1525, etc.]
• Chalcidius
  .
• Pliny (died 79). Natural History. This and Isidore's work are the two chief sources of medieval knowledge of Nature.
• Priscian (c. 525). Grammarian and physicist.
• Ptolemy (c. 130). An Alexandrian astronomer, known through Arabic translations only at that time. [Ven., 1509, etc.]
• Rabanus Maurus (776-856) of Fulda, pupil of Alcuin. A Benedictine, afterwards Archbishop of Mayence, who wrote DE UNIVERSO MUNDO. [1468; Col., 1627, etc.]
• Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
  (died 935). An Arab physician, perhaps the greatest of the School. [Ven., 1548, etc.]
• Marcianus Capella
  .
• Richard of Saint Victor (died 1173). A Scottish theologian, Prior of St. Victor. A mystic of considerable acuteness. [Ven., 1506, etc.]
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall (c. 1225). A Cornishman who was a doctor in great renown, both at Oxford and Paris. He afterwards joined the Franciscans.
• Robert Grosseteste (died 1253), the celebrated Bishop of Lincoln and patron of Bacon. Taught at Paris and at Oxford. Commentaries on Aristotle.
• SALUSTIUS (died 363?). DE DIIS ET MUNDO. A geographer.
• Schola Medica Salernitana (c. 1100). A treatise on the preservation of health in leonine verse for popular use, said to be addressed to Robert of England. It has been translated and commented on hundreds of times. The Middle Age very sensibly thought preservation from disease a branch of medicine equally important with the cure of it.
• SECUNDUS. A writer on Medicine. 4th century used Pliny^[14]
• Gaius Julius Solinus (c. 100). Wrote an account of things in general—POLYHISTORIA
• STEPHANUS (c. 600). Commentary on Galen.^[15]
• Walafrid Strabo (died 847). A Benedictine, Abbot of Reichenau, near Constance. One of the authors of the Gloss.
• SYMON CORNUBIENSIS (?).
• Marcus Terentius Varro, M. T. (116-26 BC). Most celebrated grammarian.
• Virgil (70-19 BC).
• William of Conches (died 1150). Lectured at Paris, 1139, on Grammar, wrote DE NATURA.
• Zeno of Cyprus (c. 400), A writer on Medicine, and teacher at Alexandria.

Church positions

Bartholomew was elected as Minister of Austria in 1247 and was then elected as Minister of Bohemia in 1255. This appointment included Poland where he resolved a dispute between Duke Boleslaw and the Cathedral Chapter at Kraków. Pope Alexander IV appointed him as Papal legate north of the Carpathians in 1256 and appointed him as the Bishop of Łuków. However, he was probably not consecrated in that position due to the second Mongol invasion of Poland in 1259. Bartholomew was appointed as Minister at Saxonia in 1262 and served in that position until his death in 1272.

He was at some point confused with Bartholomeus de Glanvilla, another Franciscan friar who lived a century later.^[16]

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