The Speculum Theologiae in Beinecke MS 416

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A wonderful site has been set up at Yale to discuss this incredible work:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/speculum/index.html

It's great to have translations of the illustrations. I found the Wheel of Moral Struggle especially interesting with it's 44 spoked wheel of 22 virtues and 22 vices.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/specul ... uggle.html

Translated image:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/specul ... ted/3r.jpg

Full paper:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/specul ... clarke.pdf

The Tree of Vices and Tree of Virtues is also very intriguing:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/specul ... vices.html

Great stuff!

Re: The Speculum Theologiae in Beinecke MS 416

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Wonderful addition to show the context in which tarot was to later arise.

It is such mnemonic instruments that adds to the rich content to which they are placed in service that shows how tarot too arises in conditions that is far more deeply imaginative than at times seemingly taken.

Great images and considerations upon which to reflect, le pendu... Now I'll have yet another excuse to spend further time on this aspect of materials peripheral to tarot, but ever so interesting!
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Re: The Speculum Theologiae in Beinecke MS 416

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Thanks for the links Robert, for anyone interested in these types of images as mnemonic instruments Mary Carruthers and Jan M Ziolkowski have edited an anthology of translated early texts and images in The Medieval Craft of Memory.

It includes texts by Hugh of St. Victore, Alan de Lille, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John of Metz and others on subjects that include for example the tower of wisdom, the guidonian hand, the six wings of the seraph, a method of recollecting the gospels using the four holy creatures associated with Mathew, Mark, Luke and John.

SteveM