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The Medieval Church · c. 1240
On the Properties of Things
De Proprietatibus Rerum
Bartholomaeus Anglicus · c. 1203–1272
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What it is
Nineteen books on God, angels, the human body, illness, air, birds, stones, colours, and smells, compiled by a friar teaching in Germany.
Why it lasted
The most popular encyclopaedia of the later Middle Ages, translated into six vernaculars and printed repeatedly after 1470.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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