BN 16099, 13th century.
BN 347, 14th century.
Since I finished this chapter a paper has appeared by G. E. Se Boyar, “Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his Encyclopaedia,” in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, XIX (1920) 168-89.
[1318] De propriet. rerum, Book XIX, close.
[1319] Wadding, Annales, 1230, No. 16; cited HL XXX, 355.
[1320] Cited HL XXX, 354.
[1321] De propriet. rerum, XV, 88.
[1322] HL XXX, 357; at pp. 356-7 it reproduces Bartholomew’s bibliography.
[1323] IV, 2, “Hec vincentius in speculo suo naturali, li. III, ca. lxxiii.” I was not able to find this citation in such MSS as I examined.
[1324] Had the Speculum naturale been written before the De proprietatibus rerum, Bartholomew, if he cited it at all, would have made use of it more than once, but would hardly have spoken as he did of the need of one compilation on the natures and properties of things, had the Speculum already been in existence.