Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae

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On the Sons of Jacob: Text and Manuscripts

Go to the Jacob’s Wives and Descendants group, the Visual edition.

De filiis jacob numerosa proles descendit sed de leui et juda sufficiat, quia de his descendit christus .
From the sons of Jacob came many offspring, but those from Levi and Judah suffice here, because Christ descended from them.

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Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.

Version

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

De filijs iacob numerosa proles
descendit. sed de leuj et iuda suf
ficiat. quia de his descendit christus.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

De filiis iacob numerosa proles descendit sed de leui et iuda suf
ficiat quia de his christus descendit.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

De filiis iacob numerosa proles
descendit. sed de leui et iuda suffi
ciat. quia de hiis descendit
christus.


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Citation recommendation

On the Sons of Jacob: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-filiiJacob.

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  • Data modeling, data curation and web design: Jakob Sonnberger
  • Project principal investigators: Andrea Worm, Roman Bleier and Patrick Sahle
  • Mercator Fellows: Laura Cleaver and Franz Fischer