Manuscript 9 (MS9) Speculum Humane Salvacionis and other texts
Five texts bound together including a royal genealogy from Rollo to Henry III and histories of England covering the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. There are also full-page diagrams, including a Tower of Wisdom.
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A folio manuscript from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, written in Latin on 123 leaves.
The fourth contains five large emblematic diagrams; The Tower of Wisdom, The Twelve Articles of Faith, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Virtues, and The Wheel of Life. It is made up of eight pages and is naively decorated but appealing.
It is unknown whether manuscript was written at the Cistercian Abbey of Dieulacres, Staffordshire, or copied from an another manuscript produced there.
It is bound in seventeenth century calf and has been rebacked.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
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