Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 13

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  • 1200 - 1399
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  • Latin
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 013: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16
  • Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16 || Speculum historiale fratris Vincentii libri ix-xvi
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    • Vincent de Beauvais (1190?-1264)
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    • Vincent of Beauvais OP
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    • Vincentius Bellovacensis (1190?-1264)
    • Vincent de Beauvais
    • Vincent de Beauvais (1190?-1264)
    • Vincentius Bellovacensis
    • VINCENTIUS BELLOVACENSIS
    • Vincentii Bellovacensis
    • Vincent de Beauvais 1190?-1264
    • Vincent, de Beauvais, ca. 1190-1264
    • Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264
    • Vincentius Bellovacensis 1190-1264
    • Vincent van Beauvais
    • Author: Vincentius, Bellovacensis
    • Vincent of Beauvais
    • Vincent de Beauvais (1190?-1264?)
    • Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
    • Vincentius Bellovacensis, -1264
    • Vincent de Beauvais (vers 1184 / 1194 - 1264)
    • Vincentius, Bellovacensis (ca. 1190-1264)
    • Vincent de Beauvais, 1190?-1264?
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    • Beauvais, Vincent de, 1190?-1264, O.P.
    • Beauvais, Vincent de, O.P., 1190?-1264 > , ant. bibliog.
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Description
  • 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 :


    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

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