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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[bartholomaeus 
works on natural history in the English language, and of 
one of the most widely read books of mediaeval times. 
His work was translated into French in 1372, into Spanish 
and Dutch and into English in 1397. “ Its popularity re- 
mained in full vigour after the invention of printing, no less 
than ten editions being published in the fifteenth century 
of the Latin copy alone, with four French translations, a 
Dutch, a Spanish, and an English one.” The earliest Latin 
edition was printed at Cologne in 1470, and the first English 
translation — that made by John of Trevisa for Sir Thomas 
Berkeley in 1397 — was printed in London in (or about) 1495 
by W ynken de W orde. 
John de Trevisa (1326-1412) was born at Crocadon in 
St. Mellion, near Saltash, Cornwall ; was a Fellow of Exeter 
College, Oxford, 1362-69, and a Fellow of Queen’s College, 
1369 ; from this College he was expelled for unworthiness 
by the Archbishop of York, with others ; he became Chaplain 
and Vicar of Berkeley, where he died in 1412. He was also 
a Canon of Westbury - on - Severn. His translation was 
finished at Berkeley, February 6, 1398. 
Stephen Bateman, or Batman, editor of the edition of 
1582, was born at Bruton, Somersetshire, and educated at 
Cambridge. He was Hector of Merstham, Surrey, in 1573, 
wrote several semi-theological works, and died in 1584. 
In the edition of 1495 the English names of the birds 
appear in the first paragraph of a chapter instead of at the 
head with the Latin name. 
Of the nineteen books into which the work is divided, 
Book XII. is devoted first to “ De Avibus in generali,” 
followed by accounts of “ Aquila, or Egle ” ; “ Ancipitre, or 
Gosehauke ” ; “ Alieto ” [ =Sparrowhawk ?] ; “ Apibus, or 
Bees ” ; “ Bubo, or Owle 55 ; “ Columba, or Culuour ” 
[ =^Dove] ; “ Coturnia, or Curlewe ” ; “ Ciconia, or Storke ” ; 
“ Cornix, or Crowe ” ; “ Corvo, or Hauen ” ; “ Cigno, or 
Swanne ” ; “ Culix, or Gnatte ” [the fly]; “ Cicada, or 
Grasshopper”; “Fenix” [= Phoenix] ; I Grus, or Crane”; 
“ Gallus, or Cocke ” ; “ Gallinaceo, or Capon ” ; “ Gallina, 
