PETER OF POITIERS. Compendium Historiae in Genealogica Christi. [England, c. 1325-1350]. MANUSCRIPT ON A VELLUM ROLL, consisting of four sheets sewn together, 1795 x 334 mm. (66 3/4 in. x 13 in.), text in two columns, in dark brown ink in a small neat gothic script, capital initials in red and blue, written alongside and interlocking with the genealogical tree, names (women's names in red ink, men's names in black) within double circles linked by mostly red and sometimes green lines, THREE FINE CIRCULAR DRAWINGS and two circular diagrams, the drawings and diagrams in red and black with green and brown wash; uppermost sheet defective, lacking all text preceding Isaac, some rubbing (particularly to the first sheet), marginal damage to second sheet, two old repairs, a few minor stains . An early English specimen of the popular roll-chronicle showing the descent of Christ as a family tree, and incorporating the ancestry of the kings of Persia, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar Cleopatra, Pontius Pilate, and others on collateral branches. The text, a chronicle of Old Testament history and biography which seems to have been originally planned in scroll form, is attributed to Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Chancellor of the Paris Schools (cf. P. S. Moore, The Works of Peter of Poitiers , Notre Dame 1936, pp. 97-117). The drawings represent David playing the harp on a throne between two stylized trees (diameter 42 mm.), Zedekiak seated on a throne holding scepter (45mm.), and Christ's Nativity, showing the Virgin reclining on a bed with Joseph seated at the foot and the Christ child in an architectural manger above, the ox and ass peering into it (77 mm.). At the foot of the scroll are notes, in pale brown ink, on the births of the Thornel family in the Yorkshire North Riding, 1577-1582, with a prayer for the children.
PETER OF POITIERS. Compendium Historiae in Genealogica Christi. [England, c. 1325-1350]. MANUSCRIPT ON A VELLUM ROLL, consisting of four sheets sewn together, 1795 x 334 mm. (66 3/4 in. x 13 in.), text in two columns, in dark brown ink in a small neat gothic script, capital initials in red and blue, written alongside and interlocking with the genealogical tree, names (women's names in red ink, men's names in black) within double circles linked by mostly red and sometimes green lines, THREE FINE CIRCULAR DRAWINGS and two circular diagrams, the drawings and diagrams in red and black with green and brown wash; uppermost sheet defective, lacking all text preceding Isaac, some rubbing (particularly to the first sheet), marginal damage to second sheet, two old repairs, a few minor stains . An early English specimen of the popular roll-chronicle showing the descent of Christ as a family tree, and incorporating the ancestry of the kings of Persia, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar Cleopatra, Pontius Pilate, and others on collateral branches. The text, a chronicle of Old Testament history and biography which seems to have been originally planned in scroll form, is attributed to Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Chancellor of the Paris Schools (cf. P. S. Moore, The Works of Peter of Poitiers , Notre Dame 1936, pp. 97-117). The drawings represent David playing the harp on a throne between two stylized trees (diameter 42 mm.), Zedekiak seated on a throne holding scepter (45mm.), and Christ's Nativity, showing the Virgin reclining on a bed with Joseph seated at the foot and the Christ child in an architectural manger above, the ox and ass peering into it (77 mm.). At the foot of the scroll are notes, in pale brown ink, on the births of the Thornel family in the Yorkshire North Riding, 1577-1582, with a prayer for the children.
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