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Subject(s)

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries—Early works to 1600 [Browse]
• English language—Middle English, 1100-1500—Texts [Browse]
• Geography, Medieval [Browse]

Tr

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492 [Browse]

Related name

• Gossuin, of Metz [Browse]
• Gauthier, de Metz [Browse]
• Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264 [Browse]

Ed

Prior, Oliver H. (Oliver Herbert), 1871- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Early works to 1600 [Browse]
• Encyclopedias [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• encyclopedias [Browse]

Series

• Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series 110. [More in this series]
• Early English text society. Extra series, CX

Notes

• "Caxton's Mirrour ... the first work printed in England with illustrations ... was translated in 1480 ... The first edition [here reprinted] ... was probably produced ... in 1481."--Introd.
• Translated from a prose version, sometimes known as the Livre de clergie, of the Image du monde, a compilation from various Latin sources, including the Imago mundi attributed to Honorius Solitarius or Inclusus. The compilation is attributed by some authorities to Gossuin, by others to Gautier, of Metz. The date of composition of the prose version used by Caxton is placed not far from the year 1246 (1245 o.s.) generally assigned to the original rhymed version. A longer rhymed version of slightly later date is known as the Mappemonde; a plagiarized version was published by Buffereau in 1517 under title, Mirouer du monde. cf. Introd.; Langlois, Connaissance de la nature et du monde au moyen âge, 1911; Gröber, Grundriss d. romanischen philol., v. 2, p. 757; La petite philosophie (Anglo-Norman poem) A critical edition ... by W. H. Trethewey. [London, 1939] p. liii.
• Also attributed to Vincentius (?) cf. S.T.C. 24762.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Other title(s)

Mirrour of the world.

LCCN

^^^14007722^//r873

OCLC

5315422

RCP

H - S

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