PETER OF POITIERS. Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi. [Low Countries or Rhineland, 13th/14th century]. Manuscript on a vellum roll, consisting of eight sheets glued together, 4220 x 405mm. (166 x 16in.), text in two principal columns with further subdivisions, in dark brown ink in a neat gothic script, initial letters and paragraph signs in red and blue, capitals touched with red, written alongside and interlocking with the genealogical tree, the names (men's names in brown ink, women's in red) in double circles linked by yellow or sometimes green or red lines, some circles colored red, blue, yellow or green, some groups of circles on colored grounds, nine circles with more elaborate surrounds in several colors with geometrical ornamentation, two drawings and four diagrams in red, blue, yellow, and green; upper, lower and right margins trimmed away, touching illustrations, browned and stained, torn and separating especially along green ink lines, small portions of vellum missing in green-colored areas, backed with brittle paper, in a modern brown leather box. The "Historical Compendium of the Genealogy of Christ" is a summary of Biblical history that shows the descent of Christ as a family tree, accompanied by short notices of the major persons and events of the Old Testament. Parallel time lines represent others who influenced Biblical history, e.g. the kings of Persia, Alexander the Great and his successors down to Cleopatra, and the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Tiberius. The work is attributed to Peter of Poitiers, professor of theology and chancellor of the University of Paris 1193-1205, who intended it as a teaching aid, to be hung as a chart on the wall of a classroom (see P.S. Moore, The Works of Peter of Poitiers , Notre Dame, 1936, pp. 97-117). It proved extremely popular and survives in a large number of manuscripts from the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries, many of them in roll form. This copy was written in the Low Countries or Rhineland, to judge from the script (a with large upper bow) and orthography (frequent use of w). The drawings represent a candelabrum and the Tower of Babel, the diagrams the ark of Noah (two versions), the Mansiones populi Israelitici , and the Habitatio regum et sacerdotum.
PETER OF POITIERS. Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi. [Low Countries or Rhineland, 13th/14th century]. Manuscript on a vellum roll, consisting of eight sheets glued together, 4220 x 405mm. (166 x 16in.), text in two principal columns with further subdivisions, in dark brown ink in a neat gothic script, initial letters and paragraph signs in red and blue, capitals touched with red, written alongside and interlocking with the genealogical tree, the names (men's names in brown ink, women's in red) in double circles linked by yellow or sometimes green or red lines, some circles colored red, blue, yellow or green, some groups of circles on colored grounds, nine circles with more elaborate surrounds in several colors with geometrical ornamentation, two drawings and four diagrams in red, blue, yellow, and green; upper, lower and right margins trimmed away, touching illustrations, browned and stained, torn and separating especially along green ink lines, small portions of vellum missing in green-colored areas, backed with brittle paper, in a modern brown leather box. The "Historical Compendium of the Genealogy of Christ" is a summary of Biblical history that shows the descent of Christ as a family tree, accompanied by short notices of the major persons and events of the Old Testament. Parallel time lines represent others who influenced Biblical history, e.g. the kings of Persia, Alexander the Great and his successors down to Cleopatra, and the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Tiberius. The work is attributed to Peter of Poitiers, professor of theology and chancellor of the University of Paris 1193-1205, who intended it as a teaching aid, to be hung as a chart on the wall of a classroom (see P.S. Moore, The Works of Peter of Poitiers , Notre Dame, 1936, pp. 97-117). It proved extremely popular and survives in a large number of manuscripts from the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries, many of them in roll form. This copy was written in the Low Countries or Rhineland, to judge from the script (a with large upper bow) and orthography (frequent use of w). The drawings represent a candelabrum and the Tower of Babel, the diagrams the ark of Noah (two versions), the Mansiones populi Israelitici , and the Habitatio regum et sacerdotum.
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