Avril Henry
Ashgate
Hardback
348
1986
The fourteenth-century Speculum Humanae Salvationis is a guide to fundamental Christian teaching as revealed through the lives of the Virgin and Christ. Like its predecessor Biblia Pauperum it is a compendium of typological stories Biblical and legendary and was probably used as an aid to devotional meditation - indeed it closes with three sets of Hours. Enormously popular for two centuries it exists in at least 394 manuscripts mostly in Latin but also in German French Dutch and Czech. Its English translation The Mirour of Mans Saluacioune is a unique manuscript dating from the early fifteenth century. Dr Henry provides here the first critical edition of this Middle English text.
Ashgate
Hardback
348
1986
The fourteenth-century Speculum Humanae Salvationis is a guide to fundamental Christian teaching as revealed through the lives of the Virgin and Christ. Like its predecessor Biblia Pauperum it is a compendium of typological stories Biblical and legendary and was probably used as an aid to devotional meditation - indeed it closes with three sets of Hours. Enormously popular for two centuries it exists in at least 394 manuscripts mostly in Latin but also in German French Dutch and Czech. Its English translation The Mirour of Mans Saluacioune is a unique manuscript dating from the early fifteenth century. Dr Henry provides here the first critical edition of this Middle English text.