# Gossouin de Metz, L'Image du Monde [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Fr. 574\) ## Commentary Gossouin de Metz, L'Image du Monde c. 1245 Manuscript \(MS Fr. 574\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Gossouin de Metz \(also spelt Gauthier\) was a French priest and poet. He is primarily known for writing in 1245 the encyclopedic poem L'Image du Monde \(The Image of the World or Imago Mundi\). It is an encyclopedic work about creation, the Earth and the universe, wherein facts are mixed with fantasy. The work was partly illustrated. On folio 42v of this codex an illustration of the spherical Earth can be seen. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()