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Detailed record for Egerton 1500
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| Author |
Paolino Veneto |
| Title |
Abbreviamen de las Estorias (begins imperfectly), or Chronologia magna |
| Origin |
France, S. (Avignon) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 14th century (after 1323) |
| Language |
French (Provençal dialect) |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Tables of rulers, writers, and events, containing many portraits throughout and a few small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 45v (x2), 46 (x7), 46v, 51v, 52v (x2), 53v (x3), 57). Coloured plans of Antioch and Jerusalem (ff. 47v, 49). 1 small decorated initial, in colours (f. 3). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
380 x 290 |
| Official foliation |
ff. 67 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1983. |
| Provenance |
The text is a summary of universal history, from the creation of the world to the death of the Emperor Henry VII (d. 1314).
Copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, lat. Z 399, containing the canonization of Thomas Aquinas in 1323 (see Degenhart and Schmitt 1973).
Bought by the British Museum from M. de Martres, 9 November 1850 (note on 3rd flyleaf [f. i]), using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. |
| Notes |
Includes genealogical charts, and a pictorial and narrative description of the events of the First Crusade. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), no. Eg. 1500.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9,
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 137.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), pp. 143-46.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, 'Marino Sanudo und Paolino Veneto: Zwei Literaten des 14. Jahrhunderts in ihrer Wirkung auf Buchillustrierung und Kartographie in Venedig, Avignon und Neapel', Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 14 (1973), 1-137 (pp. 25, 35, 39, 78, 90, figs. 72, 78-79, 156).
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, part 2 in two volumes (Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), I, pp. 41, 57, pls 85-87.
Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2000), p. 22. |
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ff. 3v-4
Map |
f. 3v
Map |
f. 3v
Map |
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ff. 4v-5
Diagram |
f. 4v
Genealogical diagram |
ff. 5v-6
Diagram |
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f. 5v
Genealogical diagram |
f. 5v
Moses |
f. 6
Diagram |
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f. 6v
Ruth and Boaz |
ff. 6v-7
Diagram |
f. 15v-16
Rulers |
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f. 15v
Rulers |
f. 15v
Cleopatra and Julius Caesar |
f. 16
Diagram |
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ff. 16v-17
Diagram |
f. 17
Genealogical diagram |
f. 17
Ancestors of Christ |
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f. 17
Ancestors of Christ |
f. 46
Knights on horseback |
f. 47
Antioch |
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ff. 47v-48
Map of Antioch |
ff. 48v-49
Map of Jerusalem |
f. 49
Map of Jerusalem |
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