Based on the encyclopedia "Liber de natura rerum" by the Dominican Thomas von Cantimpré, the so-called 'Thomas III' version was produced by an anonymous editor in the 13th century. Out of interest in the things of nature themselves, he extracted the material he found, reprocessed it and rearranged it in 20 books with an idiosyncratic sequence. The abundance of the handed down manuscripts of his processing documents the extraordinarily large medieval interest in this form of natural history, which was no longer predominantly spiritually oriented. The volume offers a reconstructive text edition, supplemented by text-critical and stemmatological explanations and detailed manuscript descriptions. - [Publisher]

Language: German

ISBN: 978-3-9549025-3-8; DOI: 10.29091/9783954906161