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Add MS 38842
- Record Id:
- 032-002058201
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002058201
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x0002c0
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38842
- Title:
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Apocalypse with commentary in French prose (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: Apocalypse fragment (from chapters 9-16). The text is close to that of the Queen Mary Apocalypse.
Decoration:
18 framed miniatures in colours with gold. Large initials in gold, on rose and blue grounds with filigree decoration in white.
Subjects of the miniatures:
f. 1r: An angel in a cloud under a rainbow, holding a book, with one foot on the sea and the other on land with the seven thunders;
f. 1v: St John takes the book from the angel and eats it;
f. 2r: An angel gives St John the rod (left); worshippers at the altar (centre); two men demolish a temple (right);
f. 2v: The two witnesses prophesy;
f. 3r: The temple of God and the ark within (right); the woman of the sun, with the moon under her feet (left);
f. 3v: A dragon with 7 heads (left); a woman, rising from a bed, holds up her child to God enthroned within a mandorla (right); Michael and his angels (left); a dragon supported by devils (right);
f. 4r: The dragon and devils fall from heaven into a hellmouth; the woman, with wings, flies away from the dragon, who vomits a flood which the earth swallows;
f. 4v: The beast rises from the sea;
f. 5r: Men worship the dragon and the beast;
f. 5v: Three men worship the beast that came out of the earth with the dragon on a hill (right); fire descends from heaven and four men lie dead (left);
f. 6v: The Lamb on a mount, with nine worshippers on the left and six on the right and above, in the clouds, hands playing harps;
f. 7r: Christ in a cloud, crowned, with a sickle and below, ripe corn and an angel in the door of the temple pointing to the corn; an angel rises from behind an altar, an angel with a sickle gathers grapes, and blood flows from the wine-press up to the bridles of two horses;
f. 7v: In a cloud, the seven angels with the seven plagues and the victors over the beast, with harps, standing on a sea of glass, point to the prostrate beast;
f. 8r: The seven angels with golden vials. The last takes her vial from an angel at the door of the temple;
f. 8v: The first six angels pour out their vials.
Attributed to an important court artist who worked on the 'Treatise on Good Government', given by Walter of Milemete to Edward III (Oxford, Christ Church MS 92), see Alexander, 'The Last Things' (1999).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002058201
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002058201
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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8 parchment folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_38842 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1340
- Date Range:
- Early 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 195mm (text space: 215 x 135mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 8 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 24 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Bound in a modern binding in 1916.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (London?).
Provenance:
Bought by the British Museum at Sothebys, London, 6 April 1914, lot 678, for £150.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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Montague Rhodes James, The Apocalypse in Art, The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1927 (London: British Academy, 1931), no. 72.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years, 1911-1915, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1968), I, Descriptions, pp. 275-76.
Richard Kenneth Emmerson and Suzanne Lewis, 'Census and Bibliography of Medieval Manuscripts containing Apocalypse Illustrations, ca. 800-1500: II', Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 41 (1985), 367-409, no. 70.
Jonathan Alexander, 'The Last Things: Representing the Unrepresentable', in The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), pp. 43-98 (p. 86, no. 16).
Nigel Morgan, ‘French Interpretations of English Apocalpyses’, in England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale, Proceedings of the 1996 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by John Mitchell and Matthew Moran, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 8 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 2000), pp. 137-56 (p. 144 n. 24).
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 124, fig. 111.
Nigel Morgan, 'The Bohun Apocalypse', in Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol Krinsky (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 91-110 (pp. 93, 94 n.17).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)