Description
Alternative title
Vincentii Speculum Naturale I-XV
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 384 + 6
Date created
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 45 lines
Height (mm)
240
Width (mm)
215
Collation
a(2), 1(8)-48(8) b(4).
Writing
very well written
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-21 + 21a + 22-388 + iii-iv
Provenance
At top of f. 1r (xv-xvi) is the word or name May. On f. 384v near the bottom in old pencil: I (or X) C. xii. At top of f. 1r an inscription has probably been cut off. I have an impression from the character of the writing (coupled with the press-mark, if press-mark it be, at the end) that the book is from Norwich Priory.
2 fo.
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Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 39 is an early fourteenth-century copy of the Speculum naturale, the encyclopaedia of natural history by Vincent of Beauvais OP (1189/94-c. 1264). M. R. James suggested that the book might be from Norwich cathedral priory, but that has been rejected by subsequent research.
- Contents
- Speculum naturale, books 2-17
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