13th-c biblical genealogy scroll online

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Nathaniel Taylor

13th-c biblical genealogy scroll online

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 27 sep 2007 18:03:53

Hi.

For those interested in what genealogies looked like in the middle ages,
I just noticed that one of the rare scroll-format versions of Peter of
Poitiers' _Historical compendium in the [form of the] genealogy of
Christ_ (_Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi_) is online. It is
Houghton Library MS Typ 216.

This is a compiled scroll, first made about 1200, representing Old
Testament (and secular ancient) history, from the Creation to the
Incarnation, laid out as a vertical timeline anchored by the genealogy
from Matthew. They were apparently first made for use as teaching aids
at the University of Paris (where Peter was a master, then chancellor).
There are about a half dozen of these scrolls extant, probably made
within a few years of each other.

Harvard's digitized medieval manuscripts website --

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/hought ... uscripts/i
ndex.html

-- presents five photographs covering the complete scroll at:

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3710795

The first image shows the scroll's opening, containing schematic tables
for use in calculating consanguinity and affinity, etc. The last picture
shows the Nativity of Jesus, and the Holy Family (maternal kinship) at
the bottom.

You can download the whole thing as a single five-image pdf. In the
browser viewer you can zoom to get higher-res. images than the pdf
contains, but the higher-res versions only include the first 2400 pixels
(vertically) of the larger image: I don't seem to be able to get the
bottom of the image in high-res.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

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