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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

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

M.R. James Date

xiii-xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jd580tx3020/MS_14.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ds882nx7906/14.pdf

Contains

• Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 17-24. iir-328v

  James

  VincentiiSpeculum Historiale. Libri XVII-XXIV. iir-328v

  Author

  Vincent of Beauvais OP

  Note

  (iir) Table
  (1r) Capitula XVII
  (1v) Text

  Incipit

  (1v) Ab anno primo graciani

  Note

  Initial, pink ground chequered. Above a king seated addresses a group of 3 civilians and a soldier on R. Below, between buildings, a group of 3 civilians addresses another who points them to R.
  (33v) Liber XVIII
  Capitula
  (34v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (71r) Liber XIX
  Capitula
  (71v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (107v) Liber XX
  Capitula
  (109r) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (154v) Liber XXI
  Capitula
  (155v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (188v) Liber XXII
  Capitula
  (189v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (230r) Liber XXIII
  Capitula
  (231r) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (267r) Liber XXIV
  Capitula
  (268v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  Ending

  Explicit

  (328v) regem ytalie ordinatum collaudant

TJames

353

Stanley

Under B. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 014

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