CHT344018 Ms 1029 The Four Ages of Man, from \'Livre des Proprietes des Choses\' by Barthelemy l\'Anglais (vellum) by French School, (14th century); Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Paris, France; (add.info.: les Quatre Ages de l\'Homme; translation in Langue d\'Oc of \'De proprietatibus Rerum\' probably made for Gaston Phebus (d,1391), comte de Foix; langue provencale; provencal language; shows influence on European ideas of Arabic and Middle-Eastern scholarship;Bartholomeus Anglicus (1203-72) was an early 13th century scholastic scholar of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum, dated at 1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia. Bartholomew the Englishman; Bartholomaeus); 穢 Archives Charmet; French, out of copyright.