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• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Vincent of Beauvais OP - author

  iir-328v - Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 17-24 || VincentiiSpeculum Historiale. Libri XVII-XXIV

  Note : (iir) Table

  Note : (1r) Capitula XVII

  Note : (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.

  Note : (33v) Liber XVIII

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (34v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (71r) Liber XIX

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (71v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (107v) Liber XX

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (109r) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (154v) Liber XXI

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (155v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (188v) Liber XXII

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (189v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (230r) Liber XXIII

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (231r) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (267r) Liber XXIV

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (268v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : Ending

  explicit : (328v) regem ytalie ordinatum collaudant