Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 039: Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum naturale, books 2-17

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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: Speculum naturale, books 2-17

Alternative title	Vincentii Speculum Naturale I-XV
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 384 + 6
Date created	[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of 45 lines
Height (mm)	240
Width (mm)	215
Collation	a(2), 1(8)-48(8) b(4).
Writing	very well written
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-21 + 21a + 22-388 + iii-iv
Provenance	At top of f. 1r (xv-xvi) is the word or name May. On f. 384v near the bottom in old pencil: I (or X) C. xii. At top of f. 1r an inscription has probably been cut off. I have an impression from the character of the writing (coupled with the press-mark, if press-mark it be, at the end) that the book is from Norwich Priory.
2 fo.	diffinire uolens

M.R. James Date	xiv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dk496mp7897/MS_39.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bf680jr1918/39.pdf
Contains	Title Vincent of Beauvais OP, Speculum naturale, books 2-17. 3r-384v James VincentiiSpeculum Naturale I-XV. 3r-384v Author Vincent of Beauvais OP 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
TJames	243
Stanley	P. 16
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hk996jn1247
Location	MS 039
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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