The Biblical Stemmata

Notes

This page tabulates hyperlinks to all the online digital editions of the great stemma, principally in the various bible and Beatus manuscripts.

The first three columns of this table are: (1) my own index numbers, (2) the recension codes proposed by Zaluska and (3) the sigla set by Wilhelm Neuss and Zaluska. Each section is in order of date of creation. The dates are not precise datings, but merely intended as a unified notation to establish this approximate order in the table.


N R C Name Repository Class. Folios Date Scriptorium Notes

I. The Joachim and Anna Genealogy (the Great Stemma)

Beatus
1 β M Morgan New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 644 4v 5 5v 6 6v 7 7v 8 8v 9 9v 940-945 Tábara(?); illuminated by Maius for San Miguel de Escalada See Nathaniel Taylor's website and the four low-resolution images at the Morgan. Facsimile with introduction by John Williams.
2 α T Tábara Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional cód. 1097B   0 0v 1 1v   970 San Salvador de Tábara; illuminated by Maius and Emeterius High-resolution images from Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español. H below was copied from this.
3 α G Gerona Girona, Museu de Catedral Num. Inv. 7(11) 8v 9 9v 10 10v 11 11v 12 12v 13 13v 14 14v 15 975 Kingdom of Léon, probably Tábara; illuminated by Emeterius and Ende Tu below was copied from this. Facsimile
4 γ U Urgell Seu de Urgel, Museu Diocesán, Archivo de la Catedral Inv. 501   I Iv II IIv III IIIv IV IVv V 980 Kingdom of Léon The first folio is presumed missing. Only a few later pages are on the diocesan website. Facsimile with introduction by Peter Klein.
5 β J Facundus Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España MS Vitrina 14-2 10v 11 11v 12 12v 13 13v 14 14v 15 15v 16 16v 17 1047 City of León; ordered by King Fernando I and Queen Sancha from royal scriptorium, executed by Facundus Online. A later page. Facsimile.
6 α Tu Turin Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino lat. 93 / Sgn. I.II.1 8v 9 9v 10 10v 11 11v 12 12v 13 13v 14 14v 15 1110 Catalonia, probably Ripoll
7 α R Rylands Manchester, John Rylands University Library ms. lat. 8 6v 7 7v 8 8v 9 9v 10 10v 11 11v 12 12v 13 1175 circa Burgos, San Pedro de Cardeña? Later pages. Facsimile by Klein.
8 α Pc Cardeña Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional ms. 2       2 2v 3 3v 4 4v 5 5v 6 6v 3 1180 Origin unknown The reason for the peculiar folio numbering is that folios containing IV, V and XIV have been separated and are now owned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Facsimile.
9 α H Las Huelgas New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 429 6v 7 7v 8 8v     9 9v 10 10v 11 11v 12 1220 Burgos, Santa María de Las Huelgas? In "Kilroy" look. The two high-resolution images are on Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español. A copy of T above. Facsimile.

Bible or Beatus?
10 β Fi Fragment Vitr. 14-2 Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España MS Vitrina 14-2 5
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5		 5
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5		 5v 2 2v 3 3v 1
1v		 4 4v     975 Kingdom of León Neuss guessed this came from a bible. Spanish scholars have suggested the fragment is a missing section from the Valladolid illustrated Beatus dated to 970. Zaluska disagrees. Williams, not entirely seriously, suggests it be allocated to the Beatus camp simply because these comprise a majority of the extant forms.

Vulgate Bibles
11 β Le León Bible León, Colegiata de San Isidoro cód. 2 5v   6r   6v 7r 7v 8r 8v   9r 9v   10r 960 SS Peter and Paul Monastery, Valeranica, nr. Burgos, executed by Florentius and Sanctius Five double plates. Briefly described by Ayuso and Neuss. Genesis part transcribed (with gaps) by Fischer, who designated this bible as witness L. Description on Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español. Facsimile.
12 β   Ávila Bible Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España MS Vitrina 15-1 1010
???		 Catalogue entry. Plans do exist to put it online: check the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica for progress. Zaluska was uncertain in categorizing this as recension β.
13 γ Ma San Juan de la Peña Bible Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España lat. 2 (A. 2) 1   1v     2 2v 3 3v           1050 Only six pages. Neuss is uncertain whether there may have been an additional folio at the end, now lost. Genesis transcribed by Fischer, who designated this bible as witness M.
14 β   Second León Bible León, Colegiata de San Isidoro cód. I. 3. 1162 León? The bible is an exact copy of Le
15 δ Ca Calahorra Bible Calahorra, Cathedral Treasury ms. 2 1183   Genesis transcribed by Fischer, who dated and designated this bible as witness C.
16 δ Ac San Millán de la Cogolla Bible Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia cód. 2-3     1   1v 2 2v 3 3v       4   1210 San Millán de la Cogolla Monastery High-resolution digital edition. Spans 7 pages. Catalogue description (20MB). Detailed description by Williams in JWCI. Genesis transcribed by Fischer, who designated this bible as witness E.

Chronicles
17 α Ro Roda Codex Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia cód. 78 198v 199 199v 200 201v 202 202v 203 203v 204 204v 205 205v 206 990 Executed at Nájera under direction of Sisebut, bishop of Pamplona. This is a history of the Visigothic Kingdom, Asturia and Navarre. Two additional pages after the fourth contain a mappa mundi and text.
18 ε   unnamed Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. 20.54 38 38v 39 39v 40
40v		 41 41v 42 42v 43
43v		 44 44v 45 45v 1050 Origin uncertain, presumably Italian. Zaluska 2 describes this 16-page version as principal witness to the tradition preceding α and β. Seven-word description in Bandini.

II. Derivative Works
1     Codex Amiatinus III Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Amiat.3 169 169v 170 170v 171 171v 172 172v 1040 Origin uncertain, probably Italian. Spans 8 pages (page distribution at left: check!). Mentions post-1039 king. Detailed description in Bandini 642, 643-644, 645-646. Melville has published a schematic copy. Description by Klapisch-Zuber.
2 σ S Saint-Sever Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France ms. lat. 8878 5v 6 6v 7 7v 8 8v 9 9v 10 10v 11 11v 12 1060 Saint-Sever-sur-l'Adour, Gascony; ordered by Abbot Gregory, excuted by Stephanus Garsia Placidus Low-resolution images of all 14 pages (municipality). High-resolution image of Abraham on Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español. Facsimile.

III. The Levirate-Marriage Genealogy (the Lesser Stemma)

Vulgate Bibles
1     Parc Abbey Bible London, British Library Add. Ms. 14788-14790 20r 1148 Image on Wiki Commons.
2     Foigny Abbey Bible Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France lat. 15177-15180 1160 No image yet on Mandragore
3     Burgos Roman- esque Bible Burgos, Biblioteca Pública de Burgos 1v? 2 2v 3 3v 4 4v 5 5v 6 6v 7 7v
8		 8v 1190 Perhaps San Pedro de Cardeña Monastery, Burgos. A Cistercian monastery at Vileña or Villeñas has also been proposed. The high-resolution images are on Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español. A later page is included in an English description of the library. Facsimile.
4     Floreffe Abbey Bible London, British Library Add. Ms. 17737-17738 1260 A later page.


Notes

The list does not include a 20th and a 21st copy of the great stemma in a now-lost León bible (described by Williams) and in the bible of Oña, of which only a few pages (without the stemma) now exist.

An additional early stemma at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence is a finely drawn 12th-century stemma spread over 10 pages in an anonymous seven-folio document, Plut.20.56. This diagram, cut into the body of the text, adopts the Joachimite ancestry and also suggests kinship relations between Christ and his disciples. It is, as far as I know, unique.

The first section of this table is based on the Beatus tabulation and folio numbering compiled by John Williams, as marked up by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. She also mentions the two chronicles and eight Spanish bibles known to have contained genealogies. She offers no explicit listing of those bibles, but apparently counts among the eight the lost León and fragmentarily extant bible Oña bible. Zaluska's second article [*]Millenaire de l'Abbaye, hereafter Zaluska 2. authoritatively confirms that the sum total of extant specimens of the great stemma is 19.

Links to high-resolution web versions are highlighted with a different background colour in the cells.

The conventional order of the great stemma in the Beatus manuscripts and Roda Codex, spread over 14 pages (see for example these thumbnails) is as follows:

A critical edition of the first nine pages, collated from four of the bibles, was published by Bonifatius Fischer in his 1951-1954 edition of the Vetus Latina Genesis. [*]Bonifatius Fischer. Fischer omitted some panels, such as the commentary on Lot, and suppressed such apocryphal details as the names of Noah's daughters in law. Wilhelm Neuss published a partial transcription in 1931 of the panels on the first two pages. Zaluska collated many of the stemmata, but as far as I know did not publish the collation. The transcription on this website of all the roundels is, to the best of my knowledge, the first beginning-to-end publication of the core content of the great stemma since the invention of type.

For more details on the Beatus series, see an unsigned article (in Spanish) in Arte Historia describing the Beatus series in general (including those manuscripts for which no genealogy is extant) (Bing Translation) and Pablo García-Diego's list of pre-romanesque manuscripts on his Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español website.

Other than the two Burgos bible pages displayed on Guía del Arte Prerrománico Español, I am not aware of any online editions of bibles containing the lesser stemma, but I will continue to check the project pages for Spanish, British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale de France digitizations.



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