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BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (BARTHOLOMAEUS DE GLANVILLA). Liber de proprietatibus rerum Bartholomei Anglicus. Argentorati (Strassburg, Georg Husner) 1485. Folio (271x182 mm.). 299 leaves (of 300, lacking last blank). 47 lines plus headline in two columns, gothic letter, rubricated. Old vellum, renovated, later (19th century) spine, new endpapers and inner doublures. Leaf signed a1 somewhat mended in inner margin, leaf signed z6 with long tear in inner part and some cello-tape mendings, last leaf with tear in inner margin. Some foxing and spotting, some marginal staining, about 20 leaves at end harder. A few old marginal annotations or underlinings. Old catalogue cuts mounted on inside of covers, bookplate of Carl Sahlin. Hain*2506; GW 3410. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203-1272), an early 13th century scholastic sholar of Paris, of the Franciscan order. He was the author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum (On the properties of things), dated 1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia and one of the most popular books in medieval times. (Wikipedia). The book discusses amongst other things animals, plants, herbs, spices and their properties, vine and wine-making. From the library of Carl Sahlin. Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy. He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works' Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters' Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933. Photo.