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Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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Excerpt - on Page 9: " ... 230- 240), Orosius (fl. 418), Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1075/1080-c. 1156), Vincent of Beauvais (c. 1190-1264), Johannes Sacrobosco (John of Holywood, c. 1200-1256), and, especially , Roger Bacon (1220-1292), whose writings also profoundly influenced ... "

Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays
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Excerpt - on Page 158: " ... 21 Most of Lyra's knowledge of Islam is from standard encyclopedic works like Vincent of Beauvais's (ca. 1190-ca. 1264) Speculum Historiale. Lyra cites anecdotes that are to be found elsewhere, ... "

The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN JEWISH THOUGHT Volume 7) (Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy)
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Excerpt - on Page 4: " ... More See Johannes B. Voorbij, "Perspectives on the Thirteenth-(century Encyclo- pedias of Alexander Neckam, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Thomas of Cantimpré and Vincent of Beauvais," in the present volume, 34. ... "

The Exempla or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques de Vitry
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Excerpt - on Page 136: " ... The fable was a favourite one with mediaeval writers, and is found in Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Ilietoriale, bk. iii., 2 (in Hervieux, Lee Fabulistes Latins, Paris, 1884, ii., p. 236) ; Speculum Doctrinale, iv. ... "

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