Speculum maius
Vincent of Beauvais, The Great Mirror
The largest medieval encyclopaedia: in the Speculum naturale India's plants, stones and beasts; in the Speculum historiale Alexander's Indian war, the Brahmans and the letters to Aristotle and Dindimus, an abridged Barlaam and Josaphat, and the reports of Carpini and Simon of Saint-Quentin.
- Language
- Latin
- Date
- 1244–1260 CE
- Author
- Vincentius Bellovacensis
- Text
- not yet digitised (catalogue entry)