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knowledge within a single work. However, some of these works have a restricted scope and function as instructional manuals. In this sense, the encyclopedia and the speculum are similar but they are not the same genre.
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is not often described as a core representative of the genre. One historian has surmised that this is because Vincent's work was intended to be an objective work which is at odds with
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may have had different contents, as the customer in Rome could make his own selection in the shop and have them bound up.
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is a devotional work that explores the seven stages of the soul's mystical "annihilation" through meditation and prayer.
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and may be translated as "Orm's Mirror". It is universal in contents in that it contains the appropriate
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Bradley, Ritamary (January 1954), "Backgrounds of the Title Speculum in Mediaeval Literature",
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literature, since it "is a subjective genre". More usual members are found in this list:
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The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae at the University of Chicago Library
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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
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Reading the world: encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age
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Speculum Vitae Humanae, written by Rodericus Zamorensis (
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often offered mirrors of history, doctrine, or morals.
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author portrait
Vincent of Beauvais
Jean de Vignay
Edward IV
British Library
encyclopedic
Vincent of Beauvais
Speculum Maius
Honorius Augustodunensis
Vincent of Beauvais
Edmund Rich
Speculum virginum
William of Saint-Thierry
Nigel de Longchamps
Speculum Alchimiae
Alchemy
Roger Bacon
Speculum astronomiae
Albertus Magnus
Speculum ecclesiae
Edmund Rich
Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Ludolph of Saxony
Speculum judiciale
Speculum iuris
Guillaume Durand
Speculum meditantis
John Gower
Speculum perfectionis

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