The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things

The Journey of a Book......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
 Who was Bartholomew the Englishman?......Page 13
 Evidence for the travels and longevity of ‘Properties’......Page 16
 Tracing the journey......Page 18
 The marginal glosses......Page 20
 Approach and method......Page 21
 The search for the compiler and his work......Page 27
 Later approaches......Page 29
 The question of genre......Page 30
 The faulty encyclopaedia......Page 31
 The world-book tradition......Page 32
 Compilatio and utilitas......Page 34
 Other corners of the field......Page 35
Chapter 3. ‘Properties’ as a guide to salvation......Page 41
 Foragers and gleaners......Page 42
 Fertility and growth......Page 43
 The properties of bees......Page 44
 The unstable world......Page 46
 Natura and remedies......Page 47
 Learning to submit......Page 49
 Lightening the burden......Page 50
 Rest and reward......Page 51
 The lord’s familia......Page 52
 The celibate servant......Page 54
 Travelling through the world and the book......Page 55
 Book 19: Coming full circle......Page 58
 Good doctrine and good works......Page 59
 Harmony and reconciliation......Page 60
Chapter 4. The world and the journey......Page 69
 Pilgrimage, crusade, mission, mendicants......Page 70
 Bartholomew and the sea......Page 71
 Stories and travellers......Page 73
 Book of the world, map of the world......Page 77
 The friars in England......Page 89
 Social order and disorder......Page 91
 ‘Properties’ moralised......Page 92
 Labouring and voyaging......Page 94
 Models of good behaviour …......Page 95
 … and bad behaviour......Page 97
 ‘Properties’ and a noble English family......Page 98
 Lords of their domains......Page 100
 The English and the French......Page 101
 The Berkeleys and the king......Page 104
 ‘Properties’ in London......Page 107
 A source of wisdom......Page 115
 Preserving the sources......Page 117
 ‘Bartholomew the bestiary’......Page 119
 Moralising properties......Page 120
 Bartholomew and the heralds......Page 122
 Bartholomew and the satirist: the hobbling stag......Page 124
 England’s genealogy: the lion and the leopard......Page 125
 The wild pig and the tame pig......Page 126
 The English rose......Page 127
 Properties and the press......Page 128
Chapter 7. Navigating tides of change: Bartholomew and the English......Page 139
 The Berthelet edition: ‘bycause this werke is so profitable’......Page 140
 English writers, English history......Page 142
 English foundation legends......Page 144
 Stephen Batman \'uppon Bartholome\'......Page 145
 Batman’s changes......Page 147
 An emphasis on English history......Page 148
 ‘The fressher writers’......Page 150
 Batman at home......Page 151
 Batman’s complaints......Page 154
 Batman and cosmology......Page 155
 ‘Warning all men to the judgement’......Page 159
 Collecting knowledge for the nation......Page 160
 ‘Shakespeare’s encyclopedia’......Page 163
Chapter 8. Conclusion......Page 173
Appendix A. British Library Manuscript Arundel 123, the contents of the codex.......Page 179
Appendix B. Abridgement of ‘Properties’ in Bodleian Library Manuscript Laud Miscellany 682.......Page 181
  Manuscripts......Page 183
  Incunables and early printed books......Page 184
 Secondary sources......Page 185
 Websites......Page 203
Index......Page 205