Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms. Lat. 593

Written in an Italian Gothic hand similar to B.N. Ms. fr. 9584 but not by the same scribe, this manuscript is on parchment in small folio size, 32.2 × 21.5 cm. It is a "sister" book to the Paris manuscript above and was produced in the same scriptorium, for the missing chapters are lacking in both, and it appears they were copied from the same model, dated 1324. The errors in

II-6.
a. The Lord Delivers Abraham from Ur of
the Chaldees and from the Fire.
b. Lot is Delivered from Sodom.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter XXXI.
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, Ms. lat. 593.

II-7.
a. Christ Wept over the City of Jerusalem.
b. Jeremiah Lamented over Jerusalem.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter XV.
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, Ms. lat. 593.

the miniature titles are also the same in the two manuscripts. Berenson thought that the miniatures in the Arsenal copy were done by an Umbrian artist, and he contrasts the "bald landscapes" and stiff rustic figures with the elegant flowing lines of the Florentine manuscript. Judging by the architecture in the miniatures, particularly in Chapter XV b, the view of the dome in Jerusalem (fig. II-7), he proposes that the illustrations were made after 1400, but the notice in the Samaran and Marichal catalogue attributes the illumination to Taddeo Gaddi (1300–1366), a Florentine.^[19]

[19] Ibid. , pp. 59, 71; Charles Samaran and Robert Marichal, Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture Latine , Vol. I, Musée Condé et Bibliothèques Parisiennes (Paris, 1959), p. 399.

II-8.
a. The Fall of Lucifer.
b. The Creation of Eve.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter I.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Clm 146, fol. 3 verso.