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Speculum, published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. It is open to contributions in all fields studying the Middle Ages, a period ranging from 500 to 1500. Its primary emphasis is on Western Europe, but Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Slavic studies are ... included.
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The Speculum has a rich history that can be followed throughout the years of bookmaking. Following the tradition of most early printers, Zainer printed books that had a widespread appeal in manuscript form. The Speculum, written anonymously around 1300, was published during the years 1300-1500. It exists in several hundred copies and can be found in manuscripts, blockbooks, and incunabula. Speculum, a word meaning mirror or reflection, gained popular usage in titles of the Middle Ages.4 Typology, the study of the New Testament by aligning its scripture with events that prefigured in the Old Testament... gained popularity during those years. The Speculum humanae salvationis was a typological reflection of the fall and redemption of man; it considered the these events from the viewpoint of how they are prefigured in the books of the Old Testament.5
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The Speculum shows the close relation between the New and the Old Testaments, in a number of archetypal series, each of which treats four episodes in both picture and text. A so-called anti-typus opens the series with an event of salvation taken from the canon of the New Testament... determining the subject being treated. This is followed by three relevant preview scenes from the Old Testament. The interrelation of these four events allows the reader to apprehend the inner context of the salvation topic treated. The presentation offers a synthetic view of God’s plan of salvation, as declared both in the Old and in the New Union. Though the Salvation deed of God according to the New Testament is always preferred as the greater achievement.
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The text of the Speculum begins with a 13-line blue initial with penwork embellishments running down the inner margin. The prologue begins with a similar 4-line initial. Each letter of the alphabet in the index begins with a 2-line blue initial with red penwork ground with flourishes. Similar 2- to 4-line initials are scattered through the text. The text ... includes plain 4-line red or blue initials sometimes with decorative extensions of the same color (see f. 56v for a particularly decorative design), and plain 1- to 2-line red and blue initials. The color choice and ornamentation is seemingly at random.
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Allen Blustine is a member of the Speculum Musicae, New York Chamber Soloists, and the Festival Winds. An active proponent of new music for the clarinet, he has performed with virtually every musical organization in New York, including the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Blustine played principal clarinet with the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and was principal clarinetist with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for more than a decade. He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University and a founding member of the North Country Chamber Players.
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Speculum participates in JSTOR, a collaborative project supported by the Mellon Foundation that ensures long-term access to older scholarly literature. Readers with access to an institution that subscribes to JSTOR may download and print for personal use material that appeared in Speculum five or more years ago. Copies of most back issues of Speculum are ... available for purchase from the Academy office
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