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• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Vincent of Beauvais OP - author

  ir-326v - Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16 || Speculum historiale fratris Vincentii libri ix-xvi

  Note : (ir) A table of Chapters in a different hand from the rest

  Note : (1r) Capitula of liber IX, 4 columns to a page

  Note : (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.

  Note : Border with dog and rabbit

  Note : (44v) Liber X

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (45v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (90r) Liber XI

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (91r) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (130v) Liber XII

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (131v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (170r) Liber XIII

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (171v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (219v) Liber XIV

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (220v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (251v) Liber XV

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (252v) Text. Fine decorative initial

  Note : (287r) Liber XVI

  Note : Capitula

  Note : (288r) Text. Fine decorative initial. Border with grotesque figure blowing horn

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (326v) sic et cogitationes clause