Medieval lore : an epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth of the middle age : being classified gleanings from the encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus On the properties of things / edited by Robert Steele ; with a preface by William Morris.

Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century. De proprietatibus rerum. English

Date:: 1893

Credit: Medieval lore : an epitome of the science, geography, animal and plant folk-lore and myth of the middle age : being classified gleanings from the encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus On the properties of things / edited by Robert Steele ; with a preface by William Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Pepper, where grown, 91 why it becomes black, 91 Phoenix, life of, 107 birth of nevv bird, 107 Physician, properties of a good, 61 Physiology, popular, of Middle Age, .56 Pigeons, carry messages in Egypt, 105 their description, 105 Planets, influence on men, 39 motion of, 38 Plaster of Paris, 76 Praise of dogs, 122 Prologue, translatores, 11 Quicksilver, its source and pro- perties, 31 Rain, origin of, 25 qualities of, good and bad, 25 Rainbow, how formed, 23 lunar, 23 and last judgment, 24 Raven and her young, 106 Refraction and reflection, 29 Remora, sto])s ships in mid ocean, 111 sign of bad weather, 111 Robbers in woods, 92 Roofs, how made, 93 Sapphire, contrary to poison, 36 Scotchmen, evil manners of, 81 Scotland, description of, 81 Serpent kills young pelicans, 109 Serpents and ash-tree, 89 creep into sleeper’s rcouths, 119 Servants, their condition, 46 evil properties of, 46 husbands of, become slaves, 46 kinds of, 50 Seven heavens, 18 Shorn hair of Pkisians, 78 Sight, account of, 28 Silver, 31 Smell, people who live by, only, 79 Soporilic effect of mandragoras, 90 Sources of the book, 6 Spirit pnd soul, distinction between, 28 definition of, 26 how formed, 27 Spixits, vital, animal, and natural, 17 Spleen, source of laughter, 66 Spousebreach of lioness, 130 Storks, defended by a crow, 106 Swan and sweet song, 106 in divination, 107 Tables and tablets, 93 Tail of beaver, of a fishy nature, 124 Thanet, why so called, 82 Thin air, how made fit for breath- ing, 70 Thunder, source of, 26 Tiberius and laurei, 88 Tiger, why so-called, how her whelps are taken, 136, 137 Tin, its composition and properties, 3^ Trees, great in India, 78 Trogodites, cave dwellers, 75 Tow, how made, 92 Veins, definition and description of, 61 properties of, 63 Veneficium amoris, 126 Venom of the cockatrice, 121 Venomous beasts, none in Ireland, 80 Ventricles of the brain, 18 Yineyards, how kept, 94 j Vital spirit, 17, 27 i Voice, discordant and sweet, 64 discordant, a burden to the soul, 64 Vulture, its wit of smelling, iio once a man, 110 dies of hunger, 110 Weasel slayeth cockatrice, 121 Whale and his whelps, 112 and amber, 112 and his enemy, 113 taken for island, 112 Wheat stalks for fodder, 89 White - haired children in India, 79 Wind, sale of, by witches, 82 Wine, the abuse of, 95 the praise of, 94, 95 Witches and hyena, 130 Wolf, sight of, causes man to lose his voice, 134 can bend his neck only in May, 134 . gut-strings on a lute, loi, 134 Woods, a description of, 91 W^oollen cloth, from Flanders, 77$