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Alternative title

Vincentii Speculum Historiale. Libri IX-XVI

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 326 + 2

Date created

[ca. 1200-1399]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 50 lines

Height (mm)

260

Width (mm)

195

Collation

a(2), 1(12)-17(12), 18(10), 19(12), 20(12), 21(14), 22(12)-26(12), 27(14).

Writing

in a fine round hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-326 + c-d

Provenance

From St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Uniform with MS 14, in which the provenance is marked. The first volume of the set is at St John's College (B.21). (Ancient Libraries, p. 518, no. 901-903).

2 fo.

cuauit ostendens

Summary

A luxury copy, dating from c. 1300, perhaps made in Paris, of the Speculum historiale, Books IX-XVI, by the Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais (1189/94-c. 1264), having fine illuminated initials and decorative borders. CCCC MSS 13 and 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. 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 9-16

M.R. James Date

xiii-xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jk084dv7983/MS_13.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vx610gj4367/13.pdf

Contains

• Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16. ir-326v

  James

  Speculum historiale fratris Vincentii libri ix-xvi. ir-326v

  Author

  Vincent of Beauvais OP

  Note

  (ir) A table of Chapters in a different hand from the rest
  (1r) Capitula of liber IX, 4 columns to a page
  (2r) Liber IX

  Incipit

  (2r) Gaio igitur cum esset rome

  Note

  Good historiated initial, pink chequered ground: a crowned king in blue with sword seated on L. looks at two mailed soldiers beheading two kneeling beardless men, who face R.
  Border with dog and rabbit
  (44v) Liber X
  Capitula
  (45v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (90r) Liber XI
  Capitula
  (91r) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (130v) Liber XII
  Capitula
  (131v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (170r) Liber XIII
  Capitula
  (171v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (219v) Liber XIV
  Capitula
  (220v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (251v) Liber XV
  Capitula
  (252v) Text. Fine decorative initial
  (287r) Liber XVI
  Capitula
  (288r) Text. Fine decorative initial. Border with grotesque figure blowing horn
  Ends

  Explicit

  (326v) sic et cogitationes clause

TJames

352

Stanley

Under B. 7

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 013

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