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# 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/vincent-beauvais)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Based on

- [Historia Barlaam et Iosaphat](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.narrative.barlaam)

## Versions and retellings

- [Spiegel historiael](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.nl.spiegel-historiael)

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