Speculum theologiae, etc

Description

Title: Speculum theologiae, etc
Published / Created: [ca. 1300]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
Description: In Latin.
Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v).
The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold.
Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
Provenance: Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 522). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1969 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Extent: ff. i + 8 + i : ca. 285 x 220 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology
Subjects: Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > Early works to 1800
Germany > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Speculum Theologiae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.