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Colloquial name(s): Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Official name(s): Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt Hs 2505
Date: c. 1360
Origin: Westfalen, Germany
Online facsimile available via: Digitale Sammlungen Darmstadt (full zoomable facsimile), DGF viewer (full zoomable facsimile) and Manuscript Minatures (select illustrations)
Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) was a bestselling popular theology book, written some time between 1309 and 1324 (source). Several hundred copies still survive.
This example contains multiple biblical illustrations in a distinctive bright, clear, uncluttered artistic style.
A list of the folios containing illustrations will be added here in due course.
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