Last update: December 20, 2007
A reference by Vincent of Beauvais to earlier works
In book II, chapter 1 of the final version (= Douai version) of the Speculum Naturale, which was completed ca. 1256-1257, Vincent incorporated the following reference to his works Liber de sancta Trinitate and Liber gratiae:
De mundo quippe archetypo sufficienter, ut aestimo, alias disseruimus, in Libro videlicet quem de sancta Trinitate communiter ex dictis sanctorum et catholicorum doctorum nuper compegimus, et in alio quodam opusculo quod simili modo de ipso Dei filio mundi redemptore singulariter edidimus, quem etiam Librum gratiae titulo praenotavimus.
(cf. edition Douai 1624, vol. I, 17-18)
Liber de sancta Trinitate
Manuscripts
- Kaeppeli 1970-1993
- Kaeppeli, Th., [Panella, E.], Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, vols. 1-4, Roma 1970-1993, vol. 4, 450.
- Schneider/Voorbij 1987
- Schneider, R. J., Voorbij, J. B., A hand-list of manuscripts of the minor treatises of Vincent de Beauvais. Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 12 (1987), 5,9.
Editions
- This work has never been edited.
Studies
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Liber gratiae
Manuscripts
- Kaeppeli 1970-1993
- Kaeppeli, Th., [Panella, E.], Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, vols. 1-4, Roma 1970-1993, vol. 4, 450-451.
- Schneider/Voorbij 1987
- Schneider, R. J., Voorbij, J. B., A hand-list of manuscripts of the minor treatises of Vincent de Beauvais. Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter 12 (1987), 5, 9.
Note:
In Ms. Napoli, Bibl. Naz. VII.B.11 the final chapters are missing (information kindly supplied by Eva Albrecht).Editions
- Amerbach 1481
- Amerbach, J. [ed.], Vincentius Bellovacensis Opuscula. Scilicet: libri de gratia: libri laudum Virginis gloriose: liber de sancto Johanne evangelista: liber de eruditione puerorum regalium: Liber consolatorius de morte amici, Basel 1481.
Studies
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Created by
Hans Voorbij
Utrecht University, The Netherlands