Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 013: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16

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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: Speculum historiale, books 9-16

Alternative title	Vincentii Speculum Historiale. Libri IX-XVI
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 326 + 2
Date created	[ca. 1200 - 1399]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 50 lines
Height (mm)	260
Width (mm)	195
Collation	a(2), 1(12)-17(12), 18(10), 19(12), 20(12), 21(14), 22(12)-26(12), 27(14).
Writing	in a fine round hand
Foliation	ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-326 + c-d
Provenance	From St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Uniform with MS 14, in which the provenance is marked. The first volume of the set is at St John's College (B.21). (Ancient Libraries, p. 518, no. 901-903).
2 fo.	cuauit ostendens

M.R. James Date	xiii-xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jk084dv7983/MS_13.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vx610gj4367/13.pdf
Contains	Title Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum historiale, books 9-16. ir-326v James Speculum historiale fratris Vincentii libri ix-xvi. ir-326v Author Vincent of Beauvais OP Note (ir) A table of Chapters in a different hand from the rest (1r) Capitula of liber IX, 4 columns to a page (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. Border with dog and rabbit (44v) Liber X Capitula (45v) Text. Fine decorative initial (90r) Liber XI Capitula (91r) Text. Fine decorative initial (130v) Liber XII Capitula (131v) Text. Fine decorative initial (170r) Liber XIII Capitula (171v) Text. Fine decorative initial (219v) Liber XIV Capitula (220v) Text. Fine decorative initial (251v) Liber XV Capitula (252v) Text. Fine decorative initial (287r) Liber XVI Capitula (288r) Text. Fine decorative initial. Border with grotesque figure blowing horn Ends Explicit (326v) sic et cogitationes clause
TJames	352
Stanley	Under B. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cm180ts4203
Location	MS 013
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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