Manuscripts of the Tournai version of the Speculum Naturale (Na)
This page departs from the presentation of the genesis of the Speculum Naturale (see Overview of genesis) and its components (see Components). It depends on the general introduction into the manuscript inventory of the Speculum Naturale (see Manuscripts of the Speculum Naturale).
Two manuscripts of the Tournai version of the Speculum Naturale (Na) have been identified:
- Brussels, Bibliothèque royale 9152, books I-VII
- Siglum: Na1
- D: 15th century
- P: Belgium
- O: Liège, cl. St. Laurent O.S.B.
- R: cf. He10
- Brussels, Bibliothèque royale 18465, books I-VIII
- Siglum: Na2
- D: ca. 1270-1280
- P: Northern France
- O: Tournai, cl. St. Martin O.S.B. (fol. 1r: Liber sancti Martini Tornacensis).
Memoriale Temporum
Book VIII of the Tournai version of the Speculum Naturale contains a résumé of the Speculum Historiale (here indicated as Rhist-1). Its chronological history runs up to the year 1244. This Rhist-1 also knew a limited independent diffusion, under the name Memoriale Temporum. Vincent of Beauvais added a prologue to this text. Three manuscripts of the Memoriale Temporum survived:
- Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 1549
- Siglum: MT1
- D: 15th century
- P: France
- O: cl. Le Val O.Cist, Congr. Notre-Dame des Feuillants (Ex bibliotheca Fuliensi B.M. de Valle).
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 4936
- Siglum: MT2
- I: This miscellany volume also contains works by Robert Grosseteste and Bonaventura, as well as an anonymous treatise on the archdiocese Rome.
- D: 14th century
- P: France
- O: Mazarin.
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 604
- Siglum: MT3
- I: The chronological history has been continued up to 1269.
- D: 13th century
- P: Austria ?
- O: University Libary of Vienna; since 1756 kept at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.