Skip to search Skip to main content
Parker Library On the Web - Spotlight at Stanford
  • Sign in
  • Feedback

Contact us

Reporting from: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/bv488md1266/metadata
Cancel

Parker Library On the Web

Manuscripts in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
  • Home
  • Curated Features
    • The Parker on Loan
    • New Site Features
    • Previous Exhibition: The Making of Medieval Manuscripts
    • Previous Exhibition: Worlds Real and Imagined
    • Previous Exhibition: The History of the Book
  • Browse
  • About
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 014: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 17-24

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 014: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 17-24

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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

Access conditions

Use and reproduction:
Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk
License:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License
Download
Stanford Libraries
  • Hours & locations
  • My Account
  • Ask us
  • Opt out of analytics
  • System status
Stanford University
  • Stanford Home
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search Stanford
  • Emergency Info
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Trademarks
  • Non-Discrimination
  • Accessibility

© Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.