[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [European vernaculars](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu) › [Old and Middle French (with Anglo-Norman and Franco-Italian)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.fro) › The Image of the World (Gossuin of Metz) # The Image of the World (Gossuin of Metz) (L'Image du monde) Verse encyclopaedia of cosmology and geography; its description of Asia gives India its rivers, its monstrous peoples, pepper guarded by serpents, Taprobane and the gold-guarding griffins. - **Language:** fro - **Date:** 1245 CE - **Author:** [Gossuin de Metz](https://indike.org/pramana/person/gossuin-de-metz) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.fro.image-du-monde](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.fro.image-du-monde) · Pramāṇa