Add MS 17399

Contents:

Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose, with prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée.

f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf.

ff. 2r-3v: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Paul lapostre dit'. Ending: 'Sique len peut chascune partie par soy seurement entendre et dire. Et dit ainsi'.

ff. 3v-58v: Apocalypse: 'Ie Jehan vostre frère et parcheneeur (sic) en tribulacion et en regne'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seignur soit avec nous. Amen'.

ff. 4r-58v: Glosses on Apocalypse: 'Par saint Jehan sont segnefiez li bons prelaz qui ont la voix de levvangile'. Ending: 'morir que nos puissions avec lui en sa gloire en corps et en ame senz fin regnez. Amen'.

Decoration:

One shaded ink drawing at the beginning of the Prologue (f. 2), 55 tinted drawings in yellow frames. Initials and line-fillers in red.

The subjects of the drawings are as follows:

f. 1r: St Paul preaching;

f. 3v: St John arrives on Patmos in a boat, with an angel above and a devil in the water (Revelation 1: 1-3);

f. 4r: Vision of the Lord with a sword in his mouth, the seven churches and the seven candlesticks (Revelation 1:12-20);

f. 5r: John falls at the feet of the Lord, who holds the keys of Hell (Revelation 1:18);

f. 5v: John writes the Lord’s words (Revelation 1: 19);

f. 10r: The Lord in a mandorla worshipped by the 24 Elders (Revelation 4: 1-4);

f. 11r: The Vision of Heaven (Revelation 4: 2-8);

f. 12v: Vision of the Lord with a book and the Lamb enthroned (Revelation 5:6);

f. 13r: The Lamb with a book surrounded by the four beasts of the Apocalypse and adored by the Elders (Revelation 5:7);

f. 13v: Adoration of the Lamb (Revelation 5:8-14);

f. 15r: Adoration of the Lamb (Revelation 5:8-14);

f. 15v: The First Seal: the White Horse (Revelation 6:1-2);

f. 16r: The Second Seal: the Red Horse (Revelation 6:3-4);

f. 16v: the Third Seal: the Black Horse (Revelation 6:5-6);

f. 17r: The Fourth Seal: the Pale Horse comes out of the mouth of Hell (Revelation 6:7-8);

f. 17v: The Fifth Seal: the souls of the Martyrs (Revelation 6:9-11);

f. 18r: The Sixth Seal: the earthquake and the black sun (Revelation 6:12-17);

f. 19v: The angels holding trumpets (Revelation 7:1);

f. 20r: The First Trumpet: the rain of fire on the earth; a harpie carries away a scroll (Revelation 8:6-7);

f. 21r: The Second Trumpet: the fire cast on the sea (Revelation 8:8-9);

f. 21v: The Third Trumpet: the burning star falls on the rivers and people die from drinking the water (Revelation 8:10-11);

f. 22r: The Fourth Trumpet: the darkening of the sun and moon; a golden ark in the clouds; the army of the Antichrist with red wings (Revelation 8:12);

f. 22v: The locusts as horses with lions’ heads and tails like scorpions trample the people (Revelation 9:7-10)

f. 23v: The Angel speaks to John who writes on a scroll; the seven thunders roar (Revelation 10:2-4);

f. 24v: The mighty angel standing on the sea and the land gives John the Book to eat; John holds the rod and measures the Temple (Revelation 10:1-3);

f. 25v: The death of the two witnesses (Revelation 11:7);

f. 26r: The witnesses are killed and the people celebrate (Revelation 11:7-8);

f. 27r: People give gifts; the persecution of the Antichrist;

f. 27v: The Woman clothed with the sun is attacked by the seven-headed dragon and gives her son to the angels (Revelation 12:1-6);

f. 28r: The dragon is defeated by the archangel Michael (Revelation 12:7-9);

f. 28v: The Woman is given wings and flies to the desert (Revelation 12:14);

f. 30r: The beast with seven heads comes out of the sea (Revelation 13:1);

f. 31r: The dragon gives power to the beast (Revelation 13:2);

f. 32r: The false prophet rises out of the earth and people worship the beast (Revelation 11: 11-13);

f. 32v: The Lamb adored on Mount Sion (Revelation 14:1);

f. 33v: The First Angel preaching to the dwellers on earth (Revelation 14:6-7);

f. 34v: The Second Angel tells of the fall of Babylon (Revelation 14:8);

f. 35r: Blessed are those who die in the Lord (Revelation 14:13);

f. 36r: The harvest of the Earth (Revelation 14:14-16);

f. 37r: The seven angels with vials (Revelation 15: 1);

f. 39r: A 6-part image: I: The opening of the Tabernacle; 2: the First Vial poured on the Earth; 3: the Second Vial poured on the rivers; 4: the Fourth Vial poured on the Sun; 5: The Third Vial poured on the sea, and people drowning; 6: the Fifth Vial poured on the seat of the Beast and people bite their tongues (Revelation 16:1-11);

f. 40r: The Sixth Vial poured on the Euphrates River and the destruction of the Earth; 6: Frogs come out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet (Revelation 16:12);

f. 41v: The wicked woman seated on the waters; the wicked woman seated on the beast (Revelation 17:1-5);

f. 43v: John, the angel and the fall of Babylon (Revelation 18:1-3);

f. 45v: The wicked woman has fallen, drunk with the blood of the saints; the angels and the Lord (in a mandorla above) rejoice (Revelation 18:6);

f. 46v: The angel casts the millstone into the sea (Revelation 18:21-24);

f. 47v: The marriage feast of the Lamb (Revelation 19:8-9);

f. 48v: The white horseman with the sword in his mouth and the armies of Heaven; the horseman in the wine press (Revelation 19:11-15);

f. 49r: The dragon is chained and cast into the mouth of Hell (Revelation 20:2-3);

f. 50v: The first Resurrection of the Just (Revelation 20:4);

f. 51r: Judgement and the wicked are cast into Hell (Revelation 20:9-10);

f. 52v: The Holy City descending from Heaven (Revelation 21:1-4);

f. 53v: John is led by the angel to the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:8-10);

f. 57v: John kneels to the Angel, who shows him the Lord in a mandorla with a book (Revelation 22:8);

f. 58r: John kneels before the Lord with a book (Revelation 22:16-17).