Description
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
Abstract/Contents
- 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
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