Genealogy of Christ - Moleiro

The text was composed for teaching purposes by Pedro de Poitiers, chancellor of the University of Paris between 1193 and 1205. His purpose was to create a brochure that would be useful to students and helps serve as clergy studies poor who could not afford the books. This conceived the stories of the Old Testament in the form presented family trees on a strip of parchment that was placed on the walls of the classroom, in order to show its contents in a single glance. The play was a great success and enormous popularity, at least fifty manuscripts have been preserved in the same from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.

Given the complexity of characters and situations that are narrated in the Bible, has made ​​a summary of the most significant in history that culminates in Christ. The Genealogy Christi or Compendium of Peter of Poitiers is organized into six historical periods are called the six ages of the world and they come from an ancient theological tradition from the Bible (Genesis 5, 1, 6, 9, and Matthew 1, 1 -17). The first five ages were opened with five Old Testament characters: Adam, Noah, Abraham, David and Zedekiah. The sixth age is announced Christ's birth and concludes with a Crucifixion in which, besides Christ, is representing the Virgin Mary and St. Francis of Assisi.

A variety of colors are used to differentiate various aspects, such as the sex of the characters-so, for example, the names of women can be enclosed in a circle surrounded by green, while the men in red-circled discs; their different categories-for kings used red and ocher, and blue for the prophets, also, in the central trunk running from Adam and Eve to the crucifixion, every age that divides world history offers a different color: ocher for first, red for second, green for third, red for the fourth, fifth and blue to golden yellow for the sixth.

It has a unique and convenient roll form. Chuck is unique and unrepeatable, strictly limited to 987 copies authenticated one by one, with an affidavit (attached).Handmade paper, with the same touch, and smell thickness as the original. Comes also accompanied by n volume of studies by renowned experts in the field.

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Size: 3840 x 193 mmDate: Tuscany (Italy), c. 1320-1340

Contains suggestive Venetian school miniatures with obvious influences of GiottoIt is a Bible story with family trees illuminated

Leather caseStudy book (164 p.)"Almost-original", first edition, one-off,

limited to 987 numbered and authenticated by a notary

ISBN: 978-84-88526-49-6

Price: € 600

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