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Speculum humanae salvationis (MS M.766).

Accession number
MS M.766
Object title
Speculum humanae salvationis (MS M.766).
Created
England, Yorkshire? ca. 1400
Binding
Previously, English 19th-century blue morocco, blind tooled, lettered: Speculum vitae Christianae...MS; now lace-case semi-limp parchment binding.
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Description
71 leaves (2 columns, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 240 mm
Provenance
Philip Augustus Hanrott sale (London, R.H. Evans, March 15-20, 1834, IV, no. 713); Earl of Ashburnham (untraced); Joseph Baer, Frankfurt, 1912, no. 4687; 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.
Script
English cursive
Language
Latin
Century
Classification