This organization had been developed in the 13th century by Vincent of Beauvais in his Speculum naturale and had also been used by Bartholomaus Anglicus in his De proprietatibus rerum and by Thomas of Cantimpré in his Liber de natura rerum.
On the other hand a translation of the pedagogical handbook of Vincent of Beauvais and the accompanying monograph are still of value.
treats of the created world, of light, color, the four elements, Lucifer and his fallen angels and the work of the first day.
Vincent van Gogh | Vincent Price | Beauvais | St. Vincent | Frank Vincent | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Vincent D'Onofrio | Vincent d'Indy | Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul | Rhonda Vincent | Vincent Scully | Vincent Pastore | Vincent | St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney | St Vincent's Hospital | John Vincent Atanasoff | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent | Jan-Michael Vincent | Fay Vincent | Vincent La Selva | Vincent Gallo | Vincent Ferrer | St. Vincent (musician) | St Vincent | Saint Vincent (island) | Cape St. Vincent | Vincent Spano | Vincent Smith | Vincent of Saragossa | Vincent of Beauvais |
There is evidence of influence in the works of medieval and renaissance authors, including Hildegard of Bingen, Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, Chaucer, Nicolas of Cusa, and Boccaccio.
It was written at a time when other encyclopedic descriptions of the world were being produced and translated, such as the Summarium Heinrici, the Hortus deliciarum (Herrad of Landsberg), the Liber exceptionum (Richard de Saint-Victor, Jean Châtillon), the De proprietatibus rerum (Bartholomeus Anglicus), and the Speculum naturale (Vincent of Beauvais).
The manuscript is perhaps most known because it was bound with a manuscript of Vincent of Beauvais' popular encyclopedia Speculum historiale and a spurious map on vellum, the notorious "Vinland map"- no such map is included with a second, older Hystoria/Speculum manuscript volume found more recently.