Genealogy of Christ

Casanatense Library, Rome




Date: Tuscany (Italy), c. 1320-1340.
Size: 3840 x 193 mm.
Contains suggestive miniatures from the Venetian school bearing the stamp of Giotto.
A Biblical history with illuminated genealogical trees.
Leather case.
Full-color commentary volume (164 p.) by Angela Adriana Cavarra (Director Casanatense Library), Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.), Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History).
Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited  to 987 numbered and authenticated copies.
ISBN: 978-84-88526-49-6


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Date: Tuscany (Italy), c. 1320-1340.
Size: 3840 x 193 mm.
Contains suggestive miniatures from the Venetian school bearing the stamp of Giotto.
A Biblical history with illuminated genealogical trees.
Leather case.
Full-color commentary volume (164 p.) by Angela Adriana Cavarra (Director Casanatense Library), Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.), Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History).
Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited  to 987 numbered and authenticated copies.
ISBN: 978-84-88526-49-6




Commentary volume

Commentary volume

Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome


Contents:

The editor to the reader

Foreword
Angela Adriana Cavarra (Director Casanatense Library)

The Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers
Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.)

Mnemonics and pedagogy in the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers
Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History)

Figurative illustrations in the Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers in the Biblioteca Casanatense
Ana Domínguez Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

The start of the genealogy by master Peter of Poitiers
Transcription
Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.)

ISBN: 978-84-88526-48-9


Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome




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Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome


The text was written for teaching purposes by Peter of Poitiers, a chancellor at Paris University from 1193 to 1205. His intention was to create a brief treatise to be of use to his students and a study aid for the poor clergy unable to pay for books. He therefore presented the Old Testament tales in the form of genealogical trees on a strip of parchment to be pinned to the classroom walls so that their entire content could be seen at a glance. The work was highly successful and very widely read for at least fifty copies dated between the 13th and 15th centuries have survived.

Because of the complexity of the characters and situations told in the Bible he produced a summary of the most significant ones in the history that culminated in Christ. Peter of Poitier’s Genealogia Christi or Compendium is organised in six historical periods, known as the six ages of the world, which stem from a very ancient theological tradition based on the Bible (Genesis 5: 1, 6: 9 and Matthew 1: 1-17). The first five ages open with five Old Testament characters: Adam, Noah, Abraham, David and Sedecias. The sixth age is heralded in by the annunciation of the birth of Christ and ends with a Crucifixion scene showing, in addition to Christ, the Virgin Mary and St Francis of Assisi.

A range of colours is used to differentiate certain aspects such as, for example, the sex of the characters (women’s names appear inside circles surrounded by green, and men’s in circles surrounded by red) and their social class (red and ochre being used for monarchs, and blue for prophets). Similarly, each of the ages, located along the central trunk stretching from Adam and Eve to the Crucifixion, into which the history of the world is divided, appears in a different colour: the first age is ochre, the second red, the third green, the fourth red, the fifth blue and the sixth golden yellow.

 



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Genealogy of Christ
Casanatense Library, Rome



“La 2ème réaction après contemplation : c’est un bijou qui se laisse découvrir lentement. L’objet est justement apprécié!”

Marie B.
Professor at the University of Nantes, France




Genealogy of Christ

Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome
Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome
Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome
Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome
Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome
Casanatense Library, Rome

Description

The text was written for teaching purposes by Peter of Poitiers, a chancellor at Paris University from 1193 to 1205. His intention was to create a brief treatise to be of use to his students and a study aid for the poor clergy unable to pay for books. He therefore presented the Old Testament tales in the form of genealogical trees on a strip of parchment to be pinned to the classroom walls so that their entire content could be seen at a glance. The work was highly successful and very widely read for at least fifty copies dated between the 13th and 15th centuries have survived.

Because of the complexity of the characters and situations told in the Bible he produced a summary of the most significant ones in the history that culminated in Christ. Peter of Poitier’s Genealogia Christi or Compendium is organised in six historical periods, known as the six ages of the world, which stem from a very ancient theological tradition based on the Bible (Genesis 5: 1, 6: 9 and Matthew 1: 1-17). The first five ages open with five Old Testament characters: Adam, Noah, Abraham, David and Sedecias. The sixth age is heralded in by the annunciation of the birth of Christ and ends with a Crucifixion scene showing, in addition to Christ, the Virgin Mary and St Francis of Assisi.

A range of colours is used to differentiate certain aspects such as, for example, the sex of the characters (women’s names appear inside circles surrounded by green, and men’s in circles surrounded by red) and their social class (red and ochre being used for monarchs, and blue for prophets). Similarly, each of the ages, located along the central trunk stretching from Adam and Eve to the Crucifixion, into which the history of the world is divided, appears in a different colour: the first age is ochre, the second red, the third green, the fourth red, the fifth blue and the sixth golden yellow.

 

commentary volume

Genealogy of Christ Casanatense Library, Rome

Contents:

The editor to the reader

Foreword
Angela Adriana Cavarra (Director Casanatense Library)

The Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers
Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.)

Mnemonics and pedagogy in the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers
Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History)

Figurative illustrations in the Genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers in the Biblioteca Casanatense
Ana Domínguez Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

The start of the genealogy by master Peter of Poitiers
Transcription
Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.)

ISBN: 978-84-88526-48-9

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Date: Tuscany (Italy), c. 1320-1340.
Size: 3840 x 193 mm.
Contains suggestive miniatures from the Venetian school bearing the stamp of Giotto.
A Biblical history with illuminated genealogical trees.
Leather case.
Full-color commentary volume (164 p.) by Angela Adriana Cavarra (Director Casanatense Library), Miguel C. Vivancos (O.S.B.), Carlos Miranda (Doctor in History).
Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited  to 987 numbered and authenticated copies.
ISBN: 978-84-88526-49-6

Reviews

“La 2ème réaction après contemplation : c’est un bijou qui se laisse découvrir lentement. L’objet est justement apprécié!”

Marie B.Professor at the University of Nantes, France

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