1250 : Speculum humanae salvationis
Number
1250
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 23
- William Wilson
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1460
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 048 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 375 mm
- Width of text blocks : 260 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 180
- Number of miniatures : 180
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Einsiedeln Speculum
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c.: gold-tooled black leather over pasteboard
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
biblical
Authors
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Translators
- Jean de Stavelot
Contents
- 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 30 (4 ill. f.16v-17)
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996, cat. no. 06 (fig. 19, 23, 25, 34, 37)
Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 197
Bert Cardon, ‘Between Flanders and France? A Speculum humanae salvationis: Fitzwilliam Museum MS 23’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10, part 2 (1992), 165–172