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ID: 901001673
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001673
Record Type: Literature

Speculum Naturale (encyclopedia, Vincent de Beauvais, 1244)

Note: Encyclopedic compilation all of science and natural history known in mid-13th century; quotations from Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew authors, with commentary by the compiler.

Display Date: 1244; enlarged 1259/1260

Names:
Speculum Naturale (encyclopedia, Vincent de Beauvais, 1244) (preferred,English-P,D)
Speculum Naturale (encyclopedia, Vincent de Beauvais, 1244) (Latin-P,D)

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)
................Speculum Naturale (encyclopedia, Vincent de Beauvais, 1244) (P)
Other Relationships:
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)
topic is .... natural history
.....(cross- and interdisciplinary fields, disciplines (concept), Disciplines (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
compiler is .... Vincent de Beauvais (French scholar and encyclopedist, ca. 1190-1264)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Speculum Naturale (encyclopedia, Vincent de Beauvais, 1244)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

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