MANUSCRIPT BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS Vellum bifolium from a ma

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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. Vellum bifolium from a manuscript of De proprietatibus rerum, with text from book 17 (De plantis), chapters 66-72 and 78-84, written in small Gothic book hand in brown ink, 44 lines, recto and verso. 12 2- and 3-line initials with crude penwork decoration; headings and rubrics in red. Approximately 345x467 mm; some soiling and surface wear generally not impairing legibility, formerly used as the exterior of a binding, with joint and turn-in creases and diagonally trimmed corners. France, 14th century

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From an early manuscript of the popular 13th-century encyclopedia. Sarton II, 586-88; Thorndike II, 401-35.