Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205 (http://viaf.org/viaf/17579848/)

Other related names

• J. and J. Leighton, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/263208235)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century parchment roll (formatted top-to-bottom) consisting of nine membranes and measuring just over 12 feet long (3.704 meters) and 300 mm wide. The text is the genealogy of Christ, from Adam and Eve up to Christ's ascension.

Notes

• The initials in the top medallion of membrane 1 may refer to Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509)
   

Support

Layout

Decoration

Burnished gold initials with sprays of stylized foliage extending into upper and left borders at the top of membrane 1; genealogical tree in red and green; blue and red initials throughout

Script

Provenance

• J. and J. Leighton, London (cat. 19, no. 344, plate IV); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 450, no. 13.
• Monroe, William H. "A Roll-Manuscript of Peter of Poitiers' Compendium." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 92-107.

Keywords

• Genealogy
• 15th century
• Christian
• English
• Diagrams
• Gothic
• Illumination
• Scroll
• England
• Biblical
• History

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• Membrane 1 Side 1 — Illuminated initial C
• Membrane 1 Side 1 — Illuminated initial A
• Membrane 1 Side 1 — Sprays of stylized foliage extending into upper and left borders