biography
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Vincent de Beauvais
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Lat Vincentius Bellovacensis
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pronunciation:
[vĩsã duh bohva
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1190–c.1264)
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| biography:
| French Dominican priest and encyclopedist, who compiled, under the patronage of Louis IX, the Speculum majus (Great Mirror). Its three parts, on natural, doctrinal, and historical subjects, were supplemented by a section on morals in the 14th-c, written by an unknown author. |
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