Speculum Vitae

Speculum Vitae ('Mirror of Life') is an anonymous Middle English poem, written in the third quarter of the fourteenth century. The poem consists of a commentary on the Lord's Prayer primarily derived from a prose Old French work, the Somme le roi of Laurent d'Orléans, dated 1279.^[1]

^ Speculum Vitae, Early English Text Society (Series), No. 331–332, edited by Ralph Hanna using materials assembled by Venetia Somerset (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. lxx–lxxiv; Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le roi, ed. Édith Brayer and Anne-Françoise Leurquin Labie (Paris: Société des anciens textes français, 2008).

[1] Speculum Vitae, Early English Text Society (Series), No. 331–332, edited by Ralph Hanna using materials assembled by Venetia Somerset (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. lxx–lxxiv; Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le roi, ed. Édith Brayer and Anne-Françoise Leurquin Labie (Paris: Société des anciens textes français, 2008).

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