XIR210451 Ms 399 fol.149 The Properties of the Tortoise, the Hoopoe and the Bat, from \'Livre des Proprietes des Choses\' by Barthelemy l\'Anglais (vellum) by French School, (15th century); Bibliotheque Municipale, Amiens, France; (add.info.: 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); French, out of copyright.