BARTHOLOMEW ANGLICUS OR OF GLANVILLE. - English Minorite of the 13th century, distinguished philosopher, theologian and naturalist. He studied at Oxford, as his scientific formation reveals, and then moved to Paris where he lectured "cursorily" on the entire Holy Scripture. A biblical bachelor of the university in 1230, he was sent by his minister general, Friar Giovanni Parenti, as a lecturer to the Studium of Magdeburg in Germany. He was received there with great honor in 1231 and it seems that he carried out his activity as teacher, orator and writer there until his death.

The fruit of his university life and of his teaching is the De proprietatibus rerum, an encyclopedic work in 19 books, in which he gathered all the knowledge of his age. The enthusiastic reception that the Middle Ages reserved for it is attested by the very many manuscripts preserved in the various libraries and by the numerous editions and versions that were made of it in the following centuries. For it Friar B. merited the title of "Doctor proprietatum" and of "first great encyclopedist of the Middle Ages". The Friar B. of Glanville of the 14th century seems to be a duplicate of our Friar B. Anglico, who was perhaps of Glanville or Glanville descent.

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BIBL.: Giordano da Giano, Chronica, ed. Boehmer, Paris 1908, pp. 49-54; Salimbene da Parma, Chronica, ed. Holder-Egger, in MGH, Scriptores, XXXII, p. 94. - L. Wadding, Script. Ord. Min., Rome 1906, p. 38; I. H. Sharaika, Supplem. ed. Script. Ord. Min., I, ibid. 1908, pp. 120-23; J. Felder, Storia degli studi scientifici nell'Ord. Franc., Italian trans., Siena 1911, pp. 183, 255-61; T. Plassmann, B. Anglicus, in Arch. Franc. Hist., 12 (1919), pp. 68-109; H. Lubbing, Zur Biographie des B. Anglicus, in Franzish. Studien, 12 (1925), pp. 254-57; W. Lampen, De re liturgica in opere B. Anglici, in Ephém. Liturg., 42 (1928), pp. 269-84; Anon., L'Italia nel pensiero di f. B. Anglico, in Studi Francescani, 14 (1928), pp. 111-18; M. De Wulf, Storia della filos. medioevo., Italian trans., II, Florence 1945, pp. 87-89.

Giovanni Odoardi

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