Image du monde.
Contributors: Gossuin, of Metz.; Gautier, of Metz, fl. 1245.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491, tr.; Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264.
Publisher: William Caxton
Published: 1490
Place of publication: [Westminster]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Texts
Other titles: Mirrour of the world.
Notes: Goff M-884
Hain-Copinger 11657
Ricci, S. de.  Census of Caxtons, 95; 8.
Duff 402
Leaf [1a]: Here begynneth y[e] table of the rubrices of this presente volume named The myrrour of the world or thymage of the same ...
Translated by William Caxton from a prose version of the Image du monde (or Livre de clergie) attributed by some authorities to Gossuin, by others to Gautier of Metz. It is derived from various Latin sources, chiefly the Imago mundi, probably compiled by Honorius Solitarius. Cf. George Sarton. Introd. to the hist. of science, Washington, 1931, v. 2, p. 591; Image du monde. Caxton's Mirrour of the world, edited by O.H. Prior, London, 1913, Introd.
Also attributed to Vincentius. Cf. STC 24762.
LC copy imperfect: leaves [1]-[3] partly in facsim. Bookplates of Huth Library, Roderick Terry and Frank Brewer Bemis.