Speculum theologiae, etc.

Description

Title: Speculum theologiae, etc.
Alternative Title: The tower of virtues and the orchard of spiritual grace
Published / Created: [ca. 13th or 14th century]
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. and Written in Germany at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century, perhaps at the Cistercian monastery of Kempen near Duesseldorf to which it belonged in the 15th century.
Description: Latin ms. on parchment. Binding: ca. 10th c. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
Extent: approx. 285 x 220 mm.
ff. i (paper) + 8 + i (paper)
ill., some col.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Illuminations
Illustrations
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Theology--Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Citation: Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 416. and Speculum Theologiae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9747090
OID: 2002797
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms416.htm