The Metamorphoses of a Medieval Book of (Ps.-) Science for the Dummies

The Metamorphoses of a Medieval Book of (Ps.-) Science for the Dummies

Gautier, of Metz (fl. 1245)
LJS 264 Ymage du monde
Fol. 2r, with illuminated initial C
France, ca. 1400
Manuscript of the verse version of the work, copied ca. 1400
Gautier (or Gossuin) of Metz (fl.1245), supposed author
Translator/redactor unknown
Sēfer yedîʿat ʿôlām
Title page
1718/19
Editio princeps of the Yiddish version of Image du Monde
Gautier (or Gossuin) of Metz (fl.1245), supposed author
Mattitiah ben Solomon Delacrut (or Delacraut) 16th cent., tr.
Tsel ha-'olam
Title page
Amsterdam: 1733
Editio princeps of the Hebrew version of Image du Monde
Gautier (or Gossuin) of Metz (fl.1245), supposed author
Mattitiah ben Solomon Delacrut (or Delacraut) 16th cent., tr.
Tsel ha-'olam
Title page
Munkács : Defus Bleyer et Ḳahn [1897]
Printing of the Hebrew edition of Image du Monde. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the book was reprinted (with interpolations) at least 11 more times.
Ymage du monde, Fol. 2r, manuscript copy, ca. 1400
Credit: Lawrence Schoenberg Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscriptst (download from OPenn  |  Facsimile  |  Video orientation  |  more bibliographic information)
Title page of the 1733 editio princeps of the Hebrew version
Credit: JCS Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main/ Digitale Sammlung Judaica (Download digitization)
Title page of the 1733 editio princeps of the Hebrew version
Credit: Digitization available through Hathi Trust. The original is in the collection of The Ohio State University (Facsimile)
Title page of the 1733 editio princeps of the Hebrew version
Credit: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (more bibliographic information)