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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This English manuscript was created in the early thirteenth century soon after the death of its author, Peter of Poitiers, theologian and Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1193 to 1205. It is an early copy of his text, the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi. Intended as a teaching aid, the work provides a visual genealogy of Christ comprised of portraits in roundels, accompanied by a text discussing the historical background of Christ's lineage. It also includes episodes from biblical history, including Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Nativity, the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Early manuscripts like this tend to be in the form of a book, and other examples can be found in London, British Library Cotton MS Faustina B VII, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 83. Later manuscripts of this text are often presented in roll form.
Written in Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
Early 13th century CE
book
Non-original Binding
Nineteenth-century; cream-colored parchment binding by Robert Rivière; spine inscribed in gold with "STEMMA JESU CHRISTI"
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in England, early thirteenth century
William Salloch, Ossining, New York; purchased by the Walters Art Museum from his sale in 1981, catalog 375, no. 43
Museum purchase, 1981
England
Early 13th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in England, early thirteenth century
William Salloch, Ossining, New York; purchased by the Walters Art Museum from his sale in 1981, catalog 375, no. 43
Museum purchase, 1981
This English manuscript was created in the early thirteenth century soon after the death of its author, Peter of Poitiers, theologian and Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1193 to 1205. It is an early copy of his text, the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi. Intended as a teaching aid, the work provides a visual genealogy of Christ comprised of portraits in roundels, accompanied by a text discussing the historical background of Christ's lineage. It also includes episodes from biblical history, including Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Nativity, the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Early manuscripts like this tend to be in the form of a book, and other examples can be found in London, British Library Cotton MS Faustina B VII, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 83. Later manuscripts of this text are often presented in roll form.
Written in Gothic bookhand
Principal cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Principal cataloger: Noel, William
Principal cataloger: Smith, Kathryn
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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