488347 Detail of a page from \'De Proprietatibus Rerum\' by Bartholomeus Anglicus, in the French translation of Jean Corbechon, c.1390 (tempera on vellum) (see also 488340-46) by Remiet, Pierre (flc.1390); 40.8x30.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Bartholomeus Anglicus (born before 1203-d.1272) author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things) (1240), an early forerunner of the encyclopedia Le Livre des Proprietes des Choses Probably the earliest surviving copy in French, and the finest in private hands, of one of the most important compendia of medieval knowledge); Photo 穢 Christie\'s Images; French, out of copyright.