Bartholomaeus Anglicus

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Bartholomeus Anglicus (: also Bartholomew the Englishman , Bartholomew of England , Bartholomew the Englishman ; * in 1190 in Suffolk , † after 1250) was a from England originating Franciscan scholastics and author of De proprietatibus Rerum , a precursor of the Encyclopedia and the first reference of the Middle Ages, which also takes the flora into account.

He was previously confused with the Franciscan Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla, who lived in the 14th century.

Life

Not much is known about Bartholomaeus' life. Around 1225 he entered the Franciscan order. He probably studied in Paris. Around 1230 he worked as baccalaureus biblicus in Paris in the Paris Minorite School. In 1231 he went to Magdeburg as a lecturer at the religious studies, where he completed his biblical, exegetical, encyclopedic work De proprietatibus rerum around 1240.

The stages of life from De proprietatibus rerum

Writings, editions of works and translations

  • De proprietatibus rerum ("On the order of things" or "The Properties of Things"). After 1235.
  • De proprietatibus rerum . Printer of the Flores Sancti Augustini (Jan Veldener), rather Johann Schilling (Solidi) at the expense of William Caxton, Cologne around 1471 ( digitized version ).
  • De proprietatibus rerum . Johann Koelhoff the Elder Ä. , Cologne, January 19, 1483 ( digitized version ).
  • De proprietatibus rerum . Anton Koberger , Nuremberg, May 30, 1483 ( digitized version ).
  • Liber de proprietatibus rerum . Printer by Jordanus (Georg Husner), Strasbourg, February 14, 1485 ( digitized version ).
  • Bartholomeus Engelsman: Dat boeck van den proprieteyten der dinghen. Jacob Bellaer, Haarlem 1485.
  • Proprietates Rerum domini bartholomei anglici . Printer by Lindelbach (= Heinrich Knoblochtzer ), Heidelberg, May 21, 1488 ( digitized version ).
  • Livre des propriétés des choses. 15th century (Paris National Library Ms. franc. 134).
  • Bartholomaei Anglici de genuinis rerum coelestium, terrestrium et inferarum proprietatibus libri XVIII. Wolfgang Richter, Frankfurt am Main 1601; Reprint (with a bad name) Frankfurt am Main 1964.

literature

  • Elizabeth Keen: The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things . ANU Press, Canberra 2007, ISBN 9781921313073 .
  • Gundolf Keil : Bartholomaeus Anglicus OFM. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 150.
  • Heinz Meyer: The encyclopedia of Bartholomäus Anglicus. Investigations into the transmission and reception history of "De proprietatibus rerum" (= Münster medieval writings; 77). Habilitation thesis 1997. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2000 digitized MDZ
  • Heinz Meyer: Bartholomäus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum. Self-understanding and reception , in: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 117th year 1988, pp. 237–274
  • Heinz Meyer: On the relationship between encyclopedia and allegory in the Middle Ages , in: Early Medieval Studies . 24th year 1990, pp. 290-313
  • Heinz Meyer: The aim of Bartholomäus Anglicus in "De proprietatibus rerum" , in: K. Vollmann (Ed.): Spiritual aspects of medieval nature (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages; 16). Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 86-98, 151-159
  • MC Seymor et al .: Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his Encyclopedia. Aldershot / Hampshire and Brookfield / Vermont 1992.
  • Georg Steer: Bartholomäus Anglicus. In: Burghart Wachinger u. a. (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, column 616 f.
  • John De Trevisa: On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, de Proprietatibus Rerum: A Critical Text . Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-818530-8
  • Lynn Thorndike: A History of Magic and Experimental Science: During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era , Volume II, Columbia University Press, 1923, New York and London, ISBN 0-231-08795-0
  • GE Se Boyar: Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his Encyclopedia . In: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , Vol. 19 (1920), Urbana, Illinois, pp. 168-189
  • Luchesius Spätling:  Bartholomäus Anglicus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 610 ( digitized version ).
  • Marek Tamm: Signes d'altérité. The representation de la Baltique orientale dans le De proprietatibus rerum de Barthélemy l'Anglais (verse 1245) . In: Outi Merisalo (Ed.): Frontiers in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Third European Congress of the FIDEM (Jyväskylä, June 2003) . (= Textes et etudes du moyen age; 35). Brepols, Turnhout-Louvain-la-Neuve 2006, pp. 147-170.

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personal data
SURNAME Bartholomaeus Anglicus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartholomaeus de Glanvilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan scholastic and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1190
DATE OF DEATH after 1250