Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 39
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- MS 039
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- 1300 - 1325
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 039: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum naturale, books 2-17
- Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum naturale, books 2-17 || VincentiiSpeculum Naturale I-XV
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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
- F. Vincentius Belvacensis
- Vincent de Beauvais (vers 1184 / 1194 - 1264)
- Vincentius, Bellovacensis (ca. 1190-1264)
- Vincent de Beauvais, 1190?-1264?
- Vinzenz
- Beauvais, Vincent de, 1190?-1264, O.P.
- Beauvais, Vincent de, O.P., 1190?-1264 > , ant. bibliog.
- Vicente de Beauvais, 1190?-1264
- Vicente de Beauvais, 1190?-1264, O.P.
- Vincentius Bellovacensis - ca. 1190 - 1264 - auteur
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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 :
3r-384v - Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum naturale, books 2-17 || VincentiiSpeculum Naturale I-XV
Note: Without title: libri I - XV (II - XVII). Note that in the printed editions Liber I is the compiler's Preface to the whole Speculum, which is not in this copy. Liber I of this MS. therefore = Liber II of the print and so on. Further, books X and XI of the print are here shortened (esp. book X) into one book, Liber IX. Liber X of the MS. therefore = XII of the print and so on, XV of the MS. = XVII of the print.
rubric: (3r) De diuersis mundi acceptionibus ex libro qui dicitur ymago mundi
incipit: (3r) Mundi factura quinque modis describitur
Note: Liber XV ends
explicit: (384v) ubi de columba. Hec de auibus dicta sufficiant
rubric: (384v) Explicit liber XVus sequitur XVIus.
Note: In col. 2, in a different and smaller hand
rubric: (384v) Incipiunt virtutes Rose marine
incipit: (384v) Recipe florem ipsum in panno
explicit: (384v) ab omni infirmitate custodit
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