CHT344047 Ms.Fr.218 The Six Ages of Man (vellum) from "Des Proprietez des Choses" by Bartholomeus Anglicus by French School, (15th century); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: Les Six Ages de l\'Homme; illustration from \'Le Livre des Proprietes des Choses\' by Barthelemy l\'Anglais; from left to right: baby in a cradle; infant learning to walk; child walking and playing with a hobby horse; man in maturity seated and discoursing with an old man with white beard and stick; next to him an adolescent boy and a young man with a sword and fashionably dressed;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.