Item Info

Script: Bastarda
Language: French
Folio Number: f. 312r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Although this manuscript was produced in the fifteenth century, the text of this Bible is a copy of a thirteenth-century French translation of the Latin Vulgate, marking an early attempt in the Church's history to render the sacred words of the Bible into a language that more people could understand. The manuscript was illuminated by two different artists from the workshop of the Master of the Échevinage, an illuminator named after a group of chronicles made for the municipal patrons, known as the échevins, of Rouen.

Christ?s genealogy is represented by His Old Testament ancestors, beginning with Abraham. In this miniature, the genealogy ends with Joseph at the scene of the Nativity.
Notes: St. Matthew and the Genealogy of Christ, beginning the Gospel of Matthew
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1457695
Country: Country:France
City/Town/Township:Rouen

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1475
Image Dimensions Width: 471 mm
ShelfMark: Widener 2
Creator Name: Master of the Échevinage de Rouen, workshop of - Artist