CHT163200 The Stages of life, from \'Le Livre des Proprietes des Choses\' by Barthelemy l\'Anglais, 1485 (colour woodcut) by French School, (15th century); Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d\'Alfort, France; (add.info.: Les Ages de la vie; 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; ages of man; ); 穢 Archives Charmet; French, out of copyright.