Editions and translations after 1700
Editions and translations of the Speculum Maius
Libellus Apologeticus and short prologues
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Oursel, C., Un exemplaire du `Speculum Majus' de Vincent de Beauvais provenant de la bibliothèque de Saint Louis. In: Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 85 (1924), pp. 261-262.
[edition of the short prologue that introduces the Dijon version of the Speculum Historiale] -
Von den Brincken, A.-D., Geschichtsbetrachtung bei Vincenz von Beauvais. Die `Apologia Actoris' zum `Speculum Maius'. In: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 34 (1978), pp. 465-499.
[this critical edition unites several versions of the Libellus Apologeticus and short prologues] -
Lusignan, S., Préface au `Speculum Maius' de Vincent de Beauvais: réfraction et diffraction, Montréal-Paris 1979 (Cahiers d'études médiévales 5), pp. 113-139.
[edition of two versions of the Libellus Apologeticus] -
Annoted editions of the oldest versions of the Libellus apologeticus — prologues to the Dijon version of the Speculum Historiale and to the Tournai version of the Speculum Naturale — are available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
A transcription of several versions of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy.
Translations
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Vergara, Javier, El Libellus apologeticus: un símbolo del enciclopedismo medieval. In: Educación XX1,6 (2003), pp. 149-201.
[rendering of the Latin text copied from the Douai 1624 edition, with a Spanish translation] -
Paulmier-Foucart, M., avec la collaboration de Marie-Christine Duchenne, Vincent de Beauvais et le Grand miroir du monde. [Turnhout] (Brepols) 2004 (Témoins de notre histoire 10).
[French translation, with the exception of chapters 14 and 15, which resume the Decretum Gelasianum]
Speculum Naturale: Tournai version (Na) and Memoriale Temporum
Speculum Naturale: Tournai version (Na): Latin text
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Albrecht, E., De ontstaansgeschiedenis en de compilatie van het "Speculum Naturale" van Vincent van Beauvais († 1264). Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Louvain 2007, vol. 2, pp. 117-120 and 121-167.
[listing of all chapter titles of Na books 1-13; quotations from Na books II and III collated with Nc book II, c. 1-18]
Memoriale Temporum: Latin text
De Wailly, N., Notice sur une chronique anonyme du treizième siècle. In: Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 6 (1844/1845), pp. 389-395 [partial edition].
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Excerpta e floribus historiarum auctore Adamo Claromontensi. In: Guigniaut, J.-D. and de Wailly, N. [eds], Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, 21 (Paris 1855), pp. 71-75 [partial edition].
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Holder-Egger, O. [ed.], Vincentii Bellovacensis `Memoriale omnium temporum'. In: Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores 24 (Hannover 1879), pp. 154-167 [partial edition].
A digital version of the prologue, derived from Holder-Egger's edition, is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius). -
Röhricht, R. [ed.], Testimonia de quinto bello sacro e chronicis occidentalibus excerpsit et sumptibus societatis illustrandis orientis latini monumentis, Genève 1882, pp. 97-110 (Publ. Soc. de l'Orient latin, série historique, III) [partial edition].
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An annoted edition of the prologue to the Memoriale Temporum is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
Speculum Naturale: Bruges version (Nb)
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Albrecht, E., De ontstaansgeschiedenis en de compilatie van het "Speculum Naturale" van Vincent van Beauvais († 1264). Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Louvain 2007, vol. 2, pp. 11-22. [listing of all chapter titles of Nb books 13-15]
Speculum Naturale: Douai version (Nc)
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An annoted edition of the Douai version of the Speculum Naturale is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
Speculum Doctrinale
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Hervieux, L., Les fabulistes latins depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Âge. Vols. 1 and 2: Phèdre et ses anciens imitateurs directs et indirects. Paris 1884, vol 1, pp. 423-460; vol. 2, pp. 234-245. [2nd ed. Paris 1893-1894; reprinted New York 1965; Hildesheim 1970; [Boston] 2004.]
[edition of book IV, cc. 114-123, presenting 29 Aesopian fables derived form the Romulus vulgaris] -
An annoted edition of the Speculum Doctrinale is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
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A digital representation of books 6 and 11-15 of the edition Douai 1624 (= books 7 and 12-16 of the Speculum Doctrinale) is available in the Bases Textuelles of the Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy.
Translations
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Burnett, Ch., Vincent of Beauvais, Michael Scot and the «New Aristotle». In: Lusignan, S., Paulmier-Foucart, M. [eds], avec la collaboration de M.-C. Duchenne, "Lector et compilator". Vincent de Beauvais, frère prêcheur. Un intellectuel et son milieu au XIIIe siècle, Grâne (Editions Créaphis), 1997 (Rencontres à Royaumont), pp. 198-205.
[sections from books I and XVI, with an English translation]
Speculum Historiale: Dijon version (Ha)
Latin text: Epistola actoris ad regem Ludovicum
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Oursel, C., Un exemplaire du `Speculum Majus' de Vincent de Beauvais provenant de la bibliothèque de Saint Louis. In: Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 85 (1924), pp. 257-261.
[edition of the Epistola actoris] -
Guzman, G. G., Vincent of Beauvais' "Epistola actoris ad regem Ludovicum": a critical analysis and a critical edition. In: Paulmier-Foucart, M., Lusignan, S., Nadeau, A. [eds], Vincent de Beauvais: intentions et réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Âge. Actes du XIVe Colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales, organisé conjointement par l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais ... et l'Institut d'études médiévales ... 27-30 avril 1988, Saint-Laurent/Paris 1990 (Cahiers d'études médiévales. Cahier spécial 4), pp. 76-85.
[critical edition of the Epistola actoris] -
An annoted edition of Vincent's letter to king Louis is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
Speculum Historiale: Klosterneuburg version (Hb)
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Tugwell, S. [ed.], Petri Ferrandi Legenda Sancti Dominici, Rome (Angelicum University Press) 2015 (Corpus Hagiographicum Sancti Dominici – Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, XXXII), pp. 403-424: Appendix III: Vincent of Beauvais.
[pp. 404-418: edition of books XXIX,73-77, and XXX, 64-66 and 78-80 containing Vincent’s first life of Dominic, based entirely on Ferrandus’ Legenda (Vita prima)] -
Voorbij, J. B., La version Klosterneuburg et la version Douai du `Speculum historiale': manifestations de l'évolution du texte. In: Paulmier-Foucart, M., Lusignan, S., Nadeau, A. [eds], Vincent de Beauvais: intentions et réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Age. Actes du XIVe Colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales, organisé conjointement par l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais ... et l'Institut d'études médiévales ... 27-30 avril 1988, Saint-Laurent/Paris 1990 (Cahiers d'études médiévales. Cahier spécial 4), pp. 137-140.
[edition of book XXVII, c. 83, collated with version Douai book XXVIII,83] -
Voorbij, J. B., Het `Speculum Historiale' van Vincent van Beauvais. Een studie van zijn ontstaansgeschiedenis, (Ph.D. Groningen University) Groningen 1991 (with an English summary), pp. 348-374.
[edition of book XXVII, c. 83, collated with version Douai book XXVIII,83; listing of the titles of the 242 chapters of book XXVIII, which constitute the florilegium of Bernard of Clairvaux; edition of book XXX,90-94 presenting contemporary history ending in 1244; edition of book XXX,100-102 and 106 on the world's Last Days]
Speculum Historiale: Saint-Jacques (Hd) and Douai (He) versions
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An annoted edition, based on manuscript Douai Bibliothèque municipale 797, is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
Vol. 1 of the manuscript represents the Saint-Jacques version, while volumes 2-4 represent the Douai version. -
A digital edition of the Speculum Historiale, based on manuscript Douai Bibliothèque municipale 797, is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy.
Vol. 1 of the manuscript represents the Saint-Jacques version, while volumes 2-4 represent the Douai version.
Speculum Historiale: Douai version (He)
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Selecta e Speculo historiali Vincentii Bellovacensis. In: Guigniaut, J.-D. and N. de Wailly [eds], Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, 21 (Paris 1855), pp. 71-75.
[short selections from books XXX and XXXII] -
Hervieux, L., Les fabulistes latins depuis le siècle d'Auguste jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Âge. Vols. 1 and 2: Phèdre et ses anciens imitateurs directs et indirects. Paris 1884, vol 1, pp. 423-460; vol. 2, pp. 234-245. [2nd ed. Paris 1893-1894; reprinted New York 1965; Hildesheim 1970; [Boston] 2004.]
[edition of book IV, cc. 2-8, presenting 29 Aesopian fables derived form the Romulus vulgaris] -
Beazley, C.R. [ed.], The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis As Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598 Together With Some Shorter Pieces. London 1903, pp. 74-106. [Reprinted: Nendeln 1967].
[edition of book XXXII, 2-33: excerpt from Jean de Plano Carpini's (Giovanni di Pian del Carpino) Historia Mongalorum, after the edition by Hakluyt (1598)] -
Duchenne, M-C., Autour de 1254, une révision capétienne du `Speculum historiale'. In: Paulmier-Foucart, M., Lusignan, S., Nadeau, A. [eds], Vincent de Beauvais: intentions et réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Age. Actes du XIVe Colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales, organisé conjointement par l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais ... et l'Institut d'études médiévales ... 27-30 avril 1988, Saint-Laurent/Paris 1990 (Cahiers d'études médiévales. Cahier spécial 4), pp. 165-166.
[edition of book XXVIII,128] -
Schmidt-Chazan, M., L'idée d'Empire dans le `Speculum historiale' de Vincent de Beauvais. In: Paulmier-Foucart, M., Lusignan, S., Nadeau, A. [eds], Vincent de Beauvais: intentions et réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Age. Actes du XIVe Colloque de l'Institut d'études médiévales, organisé conjointement par l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais ... et l'Institut d'études médiévales ... 27-30 avril 1988, Saint-Laurent/Paris 1990 (Cahiers d'études médiévales. Cahier spécial 4), pp. 283-284.
[edition of book XIV,57] -
Tugwell, S. [ed.], Petri Ferrandi Legenda Sancti Dominici, Rome (Angelicum University Press) 2015 (Corpus Hagiographicum Sancti Dominici – Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, XXXII), pp. 403-424: Appendix III: Vincent of Beauvais.
[pp. 418-424: edition of book XXX,93-95 and 103-105 containing part of Vincent’s second life of Dominic, for this part based on Ferrandus’ Legenda (Vita secunda); the rest of this second life, in books XXX,96, and XXXI,65-77, 85 and 110-120 (omitted from Tugwell’s edition), is taken from Constantine of Orvieto’s Legenda Sancti Dominici]
Translations
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Beazley, C.R. [ed.], The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis As Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598 Together With Some Shorter Pieces. London 1903, pp. 74-106. [Reprinted: Nendeln 1967].
[edition of book XXXII, 2-33: excerpt from Jean de Plano Carpini's (Giovanni di Pian del Carpino) Historia Mongalorum, after the edition by Hakluyt (1598)]
[English translation by Hakluyt] -
Mak., J. J., Amijs ende Amelis. Een middeleeuwse vriendschapssage. Naar de berijming van Jacob van Maerlant tezamen met zijn latijnse bron ("De duobus pueris consimilibus natis Amico et Amelio" in het "Speculum historiale" van Vincentius Bellovacensis), Zwolle 1954.
[edition of book XXIV, cc. 162-166, Latin text and medieval Dutch rendering by Jacob van Maerlant] -
Tarayre, M., La Vierge et le miracle. Le Speculum Historiale de Vincent de Beauvais. Paris 1999 (Collection Essais sur le Moyen Age, 22).
[French translation of miracle stories, taken from several chapters of the Speculum Historiale]
Speculum Morale
Mews, C.J. and Zahora, T., Remembering Last Things and Regulating Behavior in the Early Fourteenth Century: From the De consideratione novissimorum to the Speculum morale. In: Speculum 90 (2015), pp. 960-994.
[pp. 993-994: edition of the Prologue to the Speculum Morale]
Editions and translations of the Political works
De morali principis institutione
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Schneider, R. J. [ed.], Vincent of Beauvais. De morali principis institutione. Introduction and Text, Ph.D. Notre-Dame (Ind.) 1963 (The Mediaeval Institute of the University of Notre-Dame). [superseded by Schneider's 1995 edition]
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Schneider R. J. [ed.], Vincentii Belvacensis "De morali principis institutione", Turnhout 1995 (Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis 137).
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Vicente de Beauvais. De la formación moral del príncipe. Edición bilingüe preparada por C. T. Pabón de Acuña. Madrid 2008 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 680, Autores Medievales & Renacentistas 3).
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Translations
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Nanu, I., Vicente de Beauvais, Tratado sobre la educación moral del príncipe. Introducción, traducción y notas. In: Memorabilia. Boletín de literatura sapiencial 7, 2003.
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Vicente de Beauvais. De la formación moral del príncipe. Edición bilingüe preparada por C. T. Pabón de Acuña. Madrid 2008 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 680, Autores Medievales & Renacentistas 3).
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Vincent de Beauvais, De l'institution morale du prince. Traduction par Ch. Munier. Paris, 2010 (Sagesses chrétiennes).
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Vincent of Beauvais: The Moral Instruction of a Prince (with Pseudo-Cyprian: The Twelve Abuses of the World). Translated by P. Throop. [S.l.] (MedievalMS) 2011, 140 pp.
[English translation]
De eruditione filiorum nobilium
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Steiner, A., Vincent of Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium, Cambridge (Mass.) 1938, reprint New York 1970 (The Mediaeval Academy of America, Publication 32).
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Vicente de Beauvais. Tratado sobre la formación de los hijos de los nobles (1246). De eruditione filiorum nobilium. Introducción, estudio preliminar, traducción y notas de I. Adeva y J. Vergara. Madrid 2011 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 699 / Collectio scriptorum mediaevalium et renascentium), 918 pp.
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Translations
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Schlosser, F., Vincent von Beauvais. Hand- und Lehrbuch für Königliche Prinzen und ihre Lehrer, 2 vols., Frankfurt/Main 1819.
[German translation]
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and vol. 2. -
Millauer, A., Vincent von Beauvais über die Erziehung, aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt und mit biographischen Anhang versehen von —, Ellwangen 1887.
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Craig, W.E., Vincent of Beauvais, "On the Education of Noble Children",'Translated from Medieval Latin with Notes and an Historical Introduction. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1949.
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Bourne, J. E., The educational thought of Vincent of Beauvais, Diss., Harvard 1960.
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Vicente de Beauvais. Tratado sobre la formación de los hijos de los nobles (1246). De eruditione filiorum nobilium. Introducción, estudio preliminar, traducción y notas de I. Adeva y J. Vergara. Madrid 2011 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 699 / Collectio scriptorum mediaevalium et renascentium), 918 pp.
[Latin text with Spanish translation] Vincent of Beauvais: The Education of Noble Children Translated by P. Throop. [S.l.] (MedievalMS) 2011, 266 pp.
[English translation]
Liber consolatorius ad Ludovicum regem de morte filii
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
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Von Moos, P., Die Trostschrift des Vincenz von Beauvais für Ludwig IX. Vorstudie zur Motiv- und Gattungsgeschichte der `Consolatio'. In: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 4 (1967), pp. 173-218 [reprinted in: `Consolatio'. Studien zur mittellateinischen Trostliteratur über dem Tod und zum Problem der christlichen Trauer, 3 vols., Munich 1971-72].
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Vergara Ciordia, J. and F. Calero Calero [eds.], Vicente de Beauvais, Epístola consolatoria por la muerte de un amigo. Edición bilingüe. Madrid 2006 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 665, Autores Medievales & Renacentistas 1) [reprinted: 2010].
[Latin text with Spanish translation]
Translations
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Vergara Ciordia, J. and F. Calero Calero [eds.], Vicente de Beauvais, Epístola consolatoria por la muerte de un amigo. Edición bilingüe. Madrid 2006 (UNED, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos 665, Autores Medievales & Renacentistas 1) [reprinted: 2010].
[Latin text with Spanish translation]
Editions and translations of the Theological works
De sancta Trinitate
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
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Albrecht, E., De ontstaansgeschiedenis en de compilatie van het "Speculum Naturale" van Vincent van Beauvais († 1264). Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Louvain 2007, vol. 2, pp. 117-120. [listing of all 156 chapter titles of De sancta Trinitate]
Liber gratie
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Expositio in orationem Dominicam
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Wimmer. A. [ed.], Beati Alberti Magni episcopi quondam Ratisbonensis Tractatus de forma orandi, Regensburg 1902.
Tractatus in salutatione beate Virginis Marie ab angelo facta
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Liber de laudibus beate Marie Virginis
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Liber de laudibus sancti Johannis Evangeliste
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
Tractatus de penitentia
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A digital edition of the prologue is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy (Prologues du Speculum Maius).
