"speculum-literature" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, A[ntonius] van der Linde, translated by J[an] H[endrik] Hessels, “Speculum nostræ Salutis”, in The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster, Critically Examined […], London: Blades, East, & Blades, […], page 84",
          "text": "This speculum-literature did, of course, not disappear at once in the 16th century.",
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          "text": "In this medieval tradition this science’s ethical-political function was emphasised; thus it became part of speculum-literature.",
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          "ref": "2007, Cordula Politis, The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jorg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern Narrative in German Literature, Lewiston, N.Y., Queenston, Ont., Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, page 86",
          "text": "This evokes the medieval tradition of speculum-literature with its strong didactic slant.",
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