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Speculum humenae salvationis - written by a Dominican around 1224 -
may be seen as a link between the theology of the Middle Ages
in art + the use made of it in literature
others in the Old Testament + ancient history.
Bible Moralisie - a much more extended affair in which
each of the chosen incidents in the Bible is accompanied
by a miniature illustration its according to the
principles of medieval exercise.

bibliae pauperum - went in the Old Testament were shown to have
an allegorical or prophetic signigicance by juxtaposition to comparable
events in the gospels, an interpretative process known as typology
originated in a Benedictine monastery; somewhere in Bavaria or
Anothia for the instruction of lay brothers.
Speculum - consists of 45 chapters of typological comparisons
of biblical events and even uses some profane stories
The difference between the bibi pauperum + the Speculum is
that in the frame the chief emphasis is laid on the picture
while in the latter it is on the text
-specula - "minor literature"; postillen - collection of sermons.
The among mous Speculum humanse salvationis had an interesting
tradition of illust. embracing manuscripts, block broke + printed books.
-3 prototypes are in every instance adduced in explanation of
each episode of the New Testament, the 4 parts together
forming a chapter. 42 chapters form the body of the work.
3 additional chapters consist of mystical reflection on the 7
Stations of the Passion, the 7 sorrows of Mary + the 7 Joys of
Mary respectively. Chief sources - Bible, Historia Scholastica
+ the Legenda Aurea, as well as the Summa Theologica of
S. Thomas Aquinas
Type 118 - a 2nd Gothic type. Used from 1471 onwards. Duplicate
forms of ADMS + other letters are found in its earliest state;
a paragraph mark was added in 1474 (118b). Ludolf von Sachenn
- compiled in or about 1324 probably by a Strassbourg monk,
who although a Dominican to start later became a Carthusian,