Research Catalog

Title

A medieval mirror : Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500 / Adrian Wilson & Joyce Lancaster Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Adrian

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilson, Joyce Lancaster, -1996

Description

229 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 35 cm.

Summary

The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and included reproductions of all 116 woodcuts of the blockbooks, accompanied by a description of the typography and production and an interpretation of each scene. --Publisher description.

Subject

• Speculum humanae salvationis
• 400-1600
• Geschichte 1324-1500
• Scriptoria > Benelux countries
• Books > Benelux countries > History > 400-1400
• Books > Benelux countries > History > 1400-1600
• Typology (Theology) > Bibliography
• Theology, Doctrinal > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Bibliography
• Printing > Benelux countries > History
• Block books
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Benelux countries
• Illustrated books > History > 15th and 16th centuries
• Typology (Theology) in art

Genre/Form

• block books.
• Bibliographies
• History
• Block books.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 218-221.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Medieval Book Production in the Low Countries -- II. Latin Manuscripts of the Speculum -- III. Speculum Manuscripts in Translation -- IV. Blockbooks of the Low Countries -- V. Blockbook Editions of the Speculum -- VI. Speculum Woodcuts and Miniatures -- VII. Later Speculum Editions.

ISBN

0520051947

LCCN

^^^83024273^//r923

OCLC

• 10302067
• SCSB-11947830

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library