Speculum majus (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Speculum majus》(英語表記)Speculummajus
Speculum majus (English spelling)

…There are also documents that, although not originally compiled as iconographic handbooks, suggest with a fair degree of certainty a one-to-one correspondence between images and their contents: some Mystagogia for Byzantine church decoration, Vincent de Beauvais's Speculum majus for Gothic church decoration, and contemporary literature for early modern works based on pagan themes (e.g., the works of Botticelli and the poems of Poliziano). In the case of illustrated art (scrolls, manuscript paintings, etc.), the positional relationship between the text and the images is so close that the correspondence with the content can be grasped even more concretely.…

From Vincent de Beauvais

…He entered the early Dominican order and wrote in Beauvais and Paris, France, from 1229 onwards. He compiled the Speculum majus, the largest encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, between 1247 and 1259. This encyclopedia, consisting of 80 volumes and about 10,000 entries, is based mainly on quotations from 450 authors and 2,000 documents that he himself had access to. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Speculum majus" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,本来図像手引書として編まれたものではないが,かなりの確実性をもって図像とその内容の一対一対応を示唆する文書がある。ビザンティン教会堂装飾に関してはいくつかの〈神秘解釈学書Mystagogia〉,ゴシック教会堂の装飾に関してはバンサン・ド・ボーベ著《大鏡Speculum majus》,近世の異教的題材に基づく作品に関しては同時代の文学(例,ボッティチェリの諸作品とポリツィアーノの詩)等々があげられる。挿絵芸術(絵巻,写本画等)の場合は本文と図像の位置関係が密接であるため,内容との対応もいっそう具体的に把握されうる。…

【バンサン・ド・ボーベ】より

…初期のドミニコ会派修道会に入り,1229年以降フランスのボーベおよびパリにおいて,著作活動を行った。中世最大の百科事典とされる《大鏡Speculum majus》を,1247年から59年の間に編纂した。この著作は,全80巻,約1万項目にのぼる百科事典であり,みずから閲読しえた450人の著者,2000の文献からの引用を主体としている。…

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