Genesis Figures and Crucifixion - ca. 1320
English, Nederlands
English
Two men face off in a bully, their inverted crosses touching the ground with a ball between them. The playing field is delineated by two trees, one of which is occupied by a giant bird.
Genesis Figures and Crucifixion, ca. 1320. Illuminated English manuscript
British Museum, London, England
Detailed record for Royal 10EIV:
Author - Edited by Raymund of Peñafort, with gloss of Bernard of Parma
Title - Calendarium, Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the Smithfield Decretals)
Origin - France, S. (Toulouse?)
Date - Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Language - Latin
Script - Gothic
Decoration - 5 miniatures in colours and gold, with full or partial borders deorated with foliate and interlace patterns, at the beginning of each book. Foliate initials in colours and gold at the beginning of each book. 'Champ' initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Initials in red with pen-flourished decoration in purple or blue, or in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. Line-fillers in brown ink highlighted in yellow.
Dimensions in mm - 450 x 280 (370 x 245)
Official foliation - ff. A + 314 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves ar the beginning and at the end; f. A is a medieval parchment flyleaf)
Form - Parchment codex
Binding - Post-1600. Royal Library binding of brown leather with the arms of George II and a date of 1757.
Provenance - The text dedicated to the University of Paris (f. 4).
John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St Bartholomew's (see Bovey 2002), probably illuminated for him: the Batayle arms (ff. 3v, 4r, 43v, 47v, 65v, 66r, 75v, 90v, 178v, 179v, 180).
The Augustinian priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).
The Old Roal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library ar Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8377, 8378, 8380. or 8388).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
Notes - Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.
Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.
Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and added on a separate quire at the beginning of the manuscript (ff. 1v-3v); marginal decoration and scenes in the lower margins added by a different artist, probably on the request of John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield (his arms: see provenance) (see Bovey 200 and 2002).
British Museum, Royal Ms 10Eiv, f. 95
Nederlands
Afbeelding uit een laat 14e eeuws calendarium, vervaardigd voor John Batayle, koorheer van de prioritaatskerk van St. Bartholemew-the-Great in West Smithfield (thans Londen).
British Museum, London, Royal Ms 10Eiv, f. 95
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