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1300Medicine: examining urine
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1300The medieval Church
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1300Medieval Surgery
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1300Rural life: the lazy ploughman
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1301Friar playing music
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1308Dante's Divine Comedy
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1310Harvesting acorns
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1315Living and dead Princes
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1320Golden Haggadah
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1320Noah in the Holkham Bible
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1325Apothecary shop
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1325City walls
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1330Lord at supper
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1330Peasants work the land
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1335The Last Judgement
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1337Hundred Years War
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1348Demons fall into Hell
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1348Chronicle of the Black Death
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1350Genesis picture book
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1360Medieval encyclopedia
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1375Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
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1381Peasants' Revolt
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1385Scottish freedom
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1390English cookery manuscript
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Intro
This encyclopedia was written by a London clerk named James le Palmer. The book must have been exhausting to complete - it has more than 2,000 pages and 800 illustrations, and it is not even finished. It covers subjects as broad as natural sciences, the history of man, theology, the liberal arts and religion. This illustration shows a variety of birds. As he tells us in the introduction, le Palmer consulted over 100 different texts in compiling his great work. This was the first time a book of this kind had been arranged in alphabetical order, a technique that would influence the way that future encyclopedias were created.
Shelfmark: Royal MS 6 E.vi
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