Benutzerspezifische Werkzeuge

The lecture is part of the event: Project Lunch // Paul Petau: The first illustrated catalog of a private collection of antiquities - A comprehensive digital study.

Ms. Thott 554 folio of the Kongelige Bibliothek in Copenhagen once belonged to Paul Petau, who had it rebound with his arms and Latin motto. This manuscript preserves a copy of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada's De rebus Hispaniae (ca. 1243), together with the Additiones by the obscure Benito Morer de Torla (ca. 1459), a work only attested by two other witness: Stockholm, KB, ms. D.1263, also from Petau's library, and Paris, BnF, Lat. 12924, linked to the prominent Séguier family. Leaving aside the issue of Petau's interest in Iberian history and the peculiar fortune of this work among the French noblesse de robe, ms. Thott 554 can be identified as the earliest work due to the Poitevin artist Robinet Testard. The story of this codex and how it ended in Petau's hands, as well as its haphazard journey to Copenhagen will be analyzed in detail.

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Southern Denmark. She has extensively worked on late medieval book illumination, on medieval Iberian courtly art and on the Classical tradition in the Middle Ages.