Hortus Malabaricus | Hortus Conclusus | Hortus conclusus | Detail of the multi-level terracing of the ''Hortus Palatinus'', which required the 'toppling the peaks of the mountains' by Salomon de Caus |
It was written at a time when other encyclopedic descriptions of the world were being produced and translated, such as the Summarium Heinrici, the Hortus deliciarum (Herrad of Landsberg), the Liber exceptionum (Richard de Saint-Victor, Jean Châtillon), the De proprietatibus rerum (Bartholomeus Anglicus), and the Speculum naturale (Vincent of Beauvais).