Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi

Description

Title: Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
Creator: Petrus, Wiensis, -1183
Published / Created: [between 1225 and 1250]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Pictaviensis, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in fine gothic bookhand, above top line.
Genealogical tables accompany text throughout: drawn in red with roundels connected by pairs of parallel lines and aligned between red vertical rulings. Roundels for Adam and Eve, f. 1r, in yellow and blue, respectively; the roundels for their descendants on green ground. The plan of the temple at Jerusalem, f. 4r, in red, green and blue. The roundels for Christ, f. 5r, in blue, yellow, and red. Headings in red; spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
Lower portion of f. 1 torn, with loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Grubby blue paper wrapper. Title, in ink, on upper cover: "Manuscript des XIII Jahrhunderts. Historia mundi sec. ord. chronol. usque ad mortem Jesu Christi".
Provenance: Purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal of the Netherlands in 1956 by L. C. Witten who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. 5 : 350 x 235 (264 x 200) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Genealogy
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jesus Christ
Petrus, Wiensis, -1183.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jesus Christ > Genealogy
Petrus, Wiensis, -1183
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Petrus Pictaviensis, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.