Description
Alternative title
Vincentii Speculum Historiale. Libri XVII-XXIV
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 328 + 4
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1399]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 50 lines
Height (mm)
265
Width (mm)
250
Collation
a(4) 1(12)-6(12) 7(10) 8(12)-19(12) 20(4) 21(12)-25(12) (+2) 26(10) (+1) 27(12) 28(12) (+1).
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-328 + v + c-d
Provenance
On the flyleaf: Liber Thome Abbatis. Tertium volumen speculi historialis. D(ist.) Th. Abbatis. From St Augustine's, Canterbury.
2 fo.
miscente
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- A luxury copy, dating from c. 1300, perhaps made in Paris, of the Speculum historiale, Books XVII-XXIV, by the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-c. 1264), having fine illuminated initials and decorative borders. CCCC MSS 13, 14 are vols. II and III of a three-volume set, of which volume I is Cambridge, St John's College MS B.21. It belonged to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and this volume has on the flyleaf the name of Abbot Thomas as owner. This must be Thomas of Findon (1283-1310) who may himself have commissioned these three volumes. This is an encyclopaedia of history which was extremely popular in the Middle Ages, and exists in printed copies as late as the seventeenth century.
- Contents
- Speculum historiale, books 17-24
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