[L’Image du monde]. Sensuyt lymaige du monde.

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Contena[n]t en soy tout le mo[n]de mis en .iii. p[ar]ties/ cestassauoir/ asie: afriq[ue]/ et europe. Auec les pays. prouinces et citez et les merueilleuses et diuerses creatures q[ui] sont dedans co[n]tena[n]t en soy trois p[ar]ties co[n]e il ap[ar]t cy ap[re]s en la table de ca p[re]sent liure [Paris : Alain Lotrian, circa 1520]. Small quarto (186 x 138 mm), nineteenth-century red morocco by Chambolle-Duru for Baron Pichon, the boards ruled and decorated in gilt with an image of Columbus s ship in each corner, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt; all edges gilt; pp. [26], woodcut circular diagrammatic map of the universe on title-page, woodcut printer s device on final leaf; housed in a modern half morocco folding case. Gautier de Metz (also Gauthier, Gossuin, or Gossouin) was a French Catholic priest and poet of the thirteenth century, best known as the author of the encyclopaedic poem L Image du Monde . Written in 1245, this popular work drew upon earlier Latin texts such as Honorius of Autun’s Imago mundi, Jacques de Vitry’s Historia Hierosolymitana , Alexander Neckham’s De naturis rerum , and Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus . Divided into three parts, the work blends historical fact with fantasy to create a pseudo-scientific text explaining the cosmology, geography, zoology and astronomy of the world. The poem was later turned into prose form, circulating in manuscript for the next two centuries. The first printed edition (titled The Myrr

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