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*Parallel to the Mirror of V. of Beauvais

Conrad IV (800-1152 AD)
-the author of 3 fo the 4 parts of a Latin Mirror or encyclopedia
(Speculum majus). The part entitled "Morals" is of unknown
authorship, but is not by him. The 3 parts written by him
are entitled "Nature", "Instruction" + "History". In Nature this
order followed is that of the 6 days fo creation described in Genesis.
Instruction ranges from the libral to the mechanic arts.
The History epitomizes the story of man since Adam as it was
understated by 13th C scholars. A body of kowledge * is
interpreted in the religious art of the 13th C, as in the
sculptures of churches.
- goes into detail about the triumph of Christianity under Constantine
the Great, the rise of Mohammed, Charles the Great etc.
Especially noteable are the - at times quite long - quotations
of old + new authors. THus one finds passages from Cicero
+ Ovid, Origenes + Johannes Chrysostemos + Augustinun
up until Bernard de Clairvaux.

II A. Incipit tabula secudi volumeinis speculi historialis
"De claudia + perio" - IX li libri i chapter
B. Continentia noni libri
"Nous liber continet historia 3 ta
tummodo xiiii anororum quibis impersuit claudius.
Sed propter concilium hirofolimi tanum in quo
legalia reuocata fit per petrum + iacobum.
illic inferitue breuis epilogus de cersatione legalium
+ institutione nouorum gratia sacramentorium.
Insuper flosculi morales ineuenalis + perfii
satiricoru 3 Lucani quo 93 poete + eius patrui
senece. Habet aute 3 Capitola C XXXViii."

Vincent of Beauvais was the tutor of the children of King
Louis IX of France. - compiled his Speculum Maius under the
patrionage of St. Louis, who gave him the funds for purchasing the books
he needed.