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Studies on the Speculum Morale

Albrecht, E., De ontstaansgeschiedenis en de compilatie van het "Speculum Naturale" van Vincent van Beauvais († 1264). Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Louvain 2007, vol. 1, pp. 53-65 and vol. 2, p. 131.


Echard, J., Sancti Thomae Summa suo auctori vindicata, sive de V. F. Vincentii Bellovacensis scriptis dissertatio, Paris 1708.


Gass, W., Zur Geschichte der Ethik. Vincenz von Beauvais und das `Speculum morale'. Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 1 (1877), 365-396; 2 (1878), 332-365, 510-536.


Lusignan, S., Le `Speculum doctrinale' livre III: Étude de la logique dans le miroir des sciences de Vincent de Beauvais, Montréal 1971, 66-89 (thèse multigraphiée).


Lusignan, S., Préface au `Speculum Maius' de Vincent de Beauvais: réfraction et diffraction, Montréal-Paris 1979, 77-90 (Cahiers d'études médiévales 5).


Mews, C.J., The Speculum Dominarum (Miroir des Dames) and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century. In: Green, K. and Mews, C.J. [eds.], Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500, Dordrecht, 2011, pp. 13-30.


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.


Mews, C.J., Zahora, T., Nikulin, D., and Squire, D., The Speculum morale (c. 1300) and the study of textual transformations: a research project in progress. In: Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 35 (2010), pp. 5-15.


Palmer, N.F., `Visio Tnugdali'. The German and Dutch Translations and their Circulation in the Later Middle Ages, München/Zürich 1982, 29.


Paulmier[-Foucart], M., Étude sur l'état des connaissances au milieu du XIIIe siècle: Nouvelles recherches sur la genèse du `Speculum maius' de Vincent de Beauvais. Spicae 1 (1978), 91-121.


Quétif, J., Echard, J., Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum ..., vol. 1, Paris 1719, 212-231.


Voorbij, J. B., Het `Speculum Historiale' van Vincent van Beauvais. Een studie van zijn ontstaansgeschiedenis, (Ph.D. Groningen University) Groningen 1991, 183-187.


Voorbij, H., An updated list of surviving manuscripts of the Speculum Maius. In: Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 38 (2014), pp. 4-17.


Zahora, T., Thomist Scholarship and Plagiarism in the Early Enlightenment: Jacques Echard Reads the Speculum morale, Attributed to Vincent of Beauvais. In: Journal of the History of Ideas 73,4 (October 2012), pp. 515-536.


Zahora, T., Amending Aquinas: Textual Bricolage of the Speculum dominarum as an Authorial Strategy in the Compilation Speculum morale. In: Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes 24 (2012), pp. 505-524.


Zahora, T., Saint-à-porter : fashioning Saint Francis in the encyclopedias of Vincent and Ps.-Vincent of Beauvais. In: Spicae, Cahiers de l’’Atelier Vincent de Beauvais, Nouvelle série, 2 (2012), pp. 163-181.


Zahora, T., Nikulin, D., Mews, C., and Squire, D., Decompiling the Speculum morale. Uncovering the Franciscan voices in an encyclopedia of ethics with the aid of Factotum software. In: Muñoz, M. J., Cañizares, P. and Martín, C. [eds.], La compilación del saber en la edad media / La compilation du savoir au moyen âge / The compilation of knowledge in the Middle Ages, Porto 2013 (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, Textes et études du moyen âge, 69), pp. 557-576.


Image: Speculum Morale, Johannes Mentelin, ed. Straßburg, November 9, 1976, vol. 1, p. 212vo, kept by Münich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 1215 m-1.

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