Bartholomew de Glanville

Bartholomew de Glanville or Bartholomaeus Anglicus (bärthol"umē'us ăng'glikus) [key], fl. c.1250, English Friar Minor. He taught theology at Paris, and he was the author of De proprietatibus rerum (first pub. c.1470), a famous medieval encyclopedia of natural history.

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