CHT344045 Ms.Fr.9140 fol.102v. The Six Ages of Man (vellum) from \'Le Livre des Proprietes des Choses\' by Barthelemy l\'Anglais by French School, (15th century); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: 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; Les Six Ages de l\'Homme; in the centre an old man and a child of about seven years holding hands in a symbolic union of two humans at the beginning and end of life; on the right two older boys in early and later teenage; on the left two mature men engaged in dialogue; the bed is alluding to their being at the age suitable for reproduction;); 穢 Archives Charmet; French, out of copyright.