MS. Bodl. 287

Summary Catalogue no.: 2435

Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale

Rubric: Incipit Speculum historiale fratris Vincentij'

Final rubric: Explicit prima pars Speculi hystorialis fratris Vincentij de Beluaco [at the end of Book IX]

Only contains the first fifteen books, but they are numbered as if there are sixteen, since the long introduction is counted as Book I. There are lists of chapters, and some notes

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 306r)

Chronicle of England (extract)

Incipit: Anglia modo dicta olim Albion dicebatur

Language(s): Latin

Apollonius of Tyre (extract, incomplete)

Incipit: Fuit quidam rex Anthiocus

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: v + 307 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 16.375 × 11.5 in.

Layout

2 cols

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 636

Fine penwork initials

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Robert Hereward, canon of Exeter (canon between 3 December 1316 and March 1363, see J. M. Horn (ed.), John le Neve. Fasti ecclesiae anglicane 1300-1541 (London 1964), p. 25)

Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: "... ex legato Roberti Hereward quondam canonici Exoniensis". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution)

Given by Dean and Chapter of Exeter, 1602

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2022) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 362

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 363