ID: 901000943 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000943	Record Type: Literature

	Speculum maius (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244)

Note: Compendium intended to encompass all knowledge known in the Middle Ages: the Speculum Naturale, Speculum Doctrinale, and Speculum Historiale. A 4th part, the Speculum Morale, was added in the 14th century. Compiled from a wide variety of sources, including Christian, Classical, Arabic, and Hebrew; divided into 80 books, 9885 chapters.

Display Date: completed 1244

Names:

	Speculum maius (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244) (preferred,Latin-P,D)
	Speculum maius (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244) (English-P,D)
	Speculum majus (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244) (Latin,U)
	Speculum majus (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244) (English,U)
	Great Mirror (t,English,U)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Scientific, Instructional, Encyclopedia> (P)
		............Speculum maius (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244) (P)

Other Relationships:

	compiler is .... Vincent de Beauvais (French scholar and encyclopedist, ca. 1190-1264)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... encyclopedia
	.....(reference sources, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Speculum maius (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Speculum majus (encyclopedia, Vincent of Beauvais, 1244)
	................Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Great Mirror
	................New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition [online] (2003-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Source for image https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_majus#/media/File:Vincent_of_Beauvais%27s_Speculum_Maius_1473.jpg