Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive study of the 'Chronique Anonyme Universelle', a lavishly illustrated scroll history of the world from creation to the 15th century. Working in a French noble library around the year 1410, the anonymous compiler told the story of humanity - nearly 6,000 years by his reckoning - by editing historical texts at his disposal, arranging them in parallel columns on a vertical scroll, and filling the inter-columnar space with complex genealogical diagrams. The present volume includes an extensive study of the sources, origin, transmission and illustration of the scroll along with a critical edition, facing translation and the entire miniature cycle of manuscript W (ca. 1465, now in private hands).
