Ring My Bells

Tintinnabulous: Pertaining to Bell Ringing

And a host of other tintinnabulous words!

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Sometime around the year 1240AD, the French scholar Bartholomeus Anglicus (aka Bartholomew the Englishman) wrote what some might call one of the first general encyclopedias. It was called De Proprietatibus Rerum, meaning “On the Properties of Things.” I couldn’t find it online, but here you can see…