Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 146
For their extensive study of the Speculum humanæ salvationis , Lutz and Perdrizet chose to reproduce, with commentary, the Munich copy Clm 146.[20] It is in folio, on fifty-one parchment leaves, and contains the Prohemium, the Prologue, and forty-five chapters. There are 192 pen drawings, and initials painted in red and blue (figs. II-8, 9, 10, 11). While this copy is not dated, it was presumably written about the middle of the fourteenth century and it contains a sort of colophon statement that it was done in the Johannite monastery at Selestat (near Strasbourg). It was chosen as an authoritative text because of its origin near to the Dominican Monastery where it was assumed that the Speculum was first written, and because of the obvious care of the copyist. However it has since been proposed that this manuscript was copied from one which
II-9.
c. The Marriage of Adam and Eve.
d. The Temptation.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter I.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Clm 146, fol. 4 recto.
originated in Bologna about 1330, traveled to Toledo where it was destroyed in the Spanish civil war of the nineteen-thirties, but whose existence has been revealed by pictures of certain pages made by a Barcelona photographer.[21]
The miniatures of the Munich copy are framed in pen lines and in some of them the corners and the halos are painted in a terra cotta color, possibly to prepare them for the addition of gold. The only finished painted miniature, of God with a gold halo uniting Adam and Eve (fig. II-9), indicates that it was intended that all the miniatures be colored. The devil of the Temptation, who takes many forms in the Speculum illustrations, appears here as a basilisk with an enormous looped tail.
II-10.
a. Christ on the Cross.
b. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of the Tree Cut Down.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter XXIV.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Clm 146, fol. 26 verso.
II-11.
c. King Codrus Dedicates Himself in Death.
d. Eleazar Kills the Elephant and is Crushed.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter XXIV.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Clm 146, fol. 27 recto.
II-12.
a. The Resurrection.
Speculum humanæ salvationis , Chapter XXXII.
Yale University, The Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library, Ms. 27, fol. 36 verso.