Accession number:
MS M.766
Title:
Speculum humanae salvationis
Created:
England, Yorkshire?, ca. 1400.
Binding:
English 19th-century blue morocco, blind tooled, lettered: Speculum vitae Christianae...MS.
Credit:
Purchased in 1930.
Description:
71 leaves (2 columns, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 240 mm
Provenance:
Purchased from K.W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, in 1930.
Notes:
Ms. moralizing miscellany; written and decorated in England in the late 14th century.
Texts: Saint John of Bridlington, Office (fol. 1v); a survey of the Old Testament to the Book of Esther (fol. 2-4v); Tractatus Bibliae (fol. 6-6v); Johannes von Kastl (Johannes Castellensis), Compendium Bibliae (fol. 7-19v); alphabetical index of scenes and names in the Speculum humane salvationis (fol. 20-20v); prohemium to the Speculum humanae salvationis, with abridged contents of chapters (fol. 20v-21v); Speculum humanae salvationis (fol. 22v-70v).
Decoration: 192 drawings in brown ink, two to a page, each heading a column of text; one decorated with strokes of red.
Variant Title:
Speculum vitae Christianae
Script:
English cursive
Language:
Latin
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