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032-002095221

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Title:

Apocalypse in Latin with a verse translation and prose commentary in French [imperfect] (ff. 1r-50v); with a paraphrase in Middle English prose (ff. 10v-39r).

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Apocalypse in Latin with a verse translation and prose commentary in French.

ff. 1r-50v: Latin text: 'Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis'. Ending: 'Gratia Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi cum omnibus vobis. Amen'.

ff. 1r-50v: French text: 'Ceste livre, entre les autres livres del novel testament est dit prophecie'. Ending: 'La grace de Deu nostre seigneur/ Seit od nos a tut iour. Amen'.

ff. 2r-50v: Glosses in French: 'Par Seint Johan sunt signefie li bon prelat de seint Esglise'. Ending: 'deske ele venge a la vie de gloire'.

ff. 10v-39r: paraphrase in Middle English prose in a hand of the end of the XVth century .

1 folio is missing between ff. 13 and 14.

Decoration:

1 full-page framed miniature in colours with gold. 105 framed two-column width miniatures in colours with gold. Numerous initials in blue with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in red.

The subjects of the miniatures are:

f. 1r: John on Patmos (Revelation I: 1-3);

f. 1v: John and the seven churches (Revelation I: 4-11);

f. 2r: The Lord enthroned with worshippers;

f. 2v: The Vision of Christ with a sword in his mouth and the seven candlesticks (Revelation I: 12-20);

f. 3v: John writing to the Church of Ephesus (Revelation II: 1-7);

f. 4r John writing to the Church of Smyrna (Revelation II: 8-11);

f. 4v: John writing to the Church of Pergamos (Revelation II: 12-17);

f. 5r: John writing to the Church of Thyatira (Revelation II: 18-29);

f. 5v: John writing to the Church of Sardis (Revelation III: 1-6);

f. 6r: John writing to the Church of Philadelphia (Revelation III: 7-13);

f. 6v: John writing to the Church of Laodicea (Revelation III: 14-22);

f. 7r: The vision of Heaven (Revelation IV: 2-8);

f. 8r: The adoration of Christ by the elders (Revelation IV: 10-11);

f. 8r: The angel proclaims 'Who is worthy' and John is consoled by an elder (Revelation V: 1-5); the lion presents the Book to the Lord;

f. 9r: The Lamb is given the Book (Revelation V:7);

f. 9v: Adoration of the Lamb (Revelation V: 8-14);

f. 10r: The Lamb and the Lord with the Book;

f. 10v: The First Seal: the White Horse (Revelation VI: 1-2);

f. 11r: The Second Seal: the Red Horse (Revelation VI: 3-4); the Third Seal: the Black Horse (Revelation VI: 5-6);

f. 11v: The Fourth Seal: the Pale Horse (Revelation VI: 7-8);

f. 12r: The Fifth Seal: the souls of the Martyrs (Revelation VI: 9-11);

f. 12v: The Sixth Seal: the earthquake (Revelation VI 12-17):

f. 13r The angels holding the winds (Revelation VII: 1);

f. 13v: The elders around the throne (Revelation VII: 11-12);

f. 14r: The First Trumpet: the rain of fire on the earth (Revelation VIII: 6-7); the Second Trumpet: the fire cast on the sea (Revelation VIII: 8-9);

f. 14v: The Third Trumpet: the burning star falls from Heaven (Revelation VIII: 10-11);

f. 15r: The Fourth Trumpet: the darkening of the sun and moon (Revelation VIII: 12); the eagle laments (Revelation VIII: 13);

f. 15v: The Fifth Trumpet blown by the angel and the Locusts emerging from the pit (Revelation IX: 1-4);

f. 16r: The Locusts riding and the Antichrist (Revelation IX: 3-4);

f. 16v: The Sixth Trumpet: the freeing of the angels in the Euphrates (Revelation IX: 13-15);

f. 17r: The Locusts go to destroy the people (Revelation IX: 7-10);

f. 17v: The mighty angel appears (Revelation X: 1);

f. 18r: The Seven Thunders (Revelation X: 3-4); the mighty angel standing on the sea and the land (Revelation X: 2-3);

f. 18v: The angel gives John the Book to eat (Revelation X: 8-9);

f. 19r: John holds the rod and measures the Temple (Revelation X: 1-2);

f. 19v: The death of the two witnesses (Revelation XI: 7); the witnesses lie in the streets and the people celebrate (Revelation XI: 8);f.

f. 20v: The ascension of the witnesses and the persecution of the Antichrist (Revelation XI: 11-13);

f. 21r: The Seventh Trumpet: Christ is proclaimed by the elders (Revelation XI: 15-17);

f. 21v: The Temple in Heaven ( (Revelation XI: 19);

f. 22r: The Woman clothed with the sun (Revelation XII: 1-2): the seven-headed dragon;

f. 22v: The seven-headed dragon and the Woman's child taken up to heaven (Revelation XII: 3-5);

f. 23r: The dragon is conquered by the angel Michael and cast into the earth (Revelation XII: 7-9);

f. 23v: The dragon defeated and cast into the earth; salvation is proclaimed (Revelation XII:10-11);

f. 24r: The Woman flies to the desert and the dragon casts out a flood (Revelation XII: 14-16);

f. 24v: The dragon wages war on the woman's offspring (Revelation XII: 17);

f. 25r: The seven-headed beast rises from the sea with John watching (Revelation XIII: 1); the dragon gives power to the beast (Revelation XIII: 2);

f. 25v: The worship of the beast (Revelation XIII: 4);

f. 26r: The beast slays the Saints (Revelation XIII: 7-10);

f. 26v: The false prophet rises from the earth and causes the people to worship the beast (Revelation XI: 11-13);

f. 27r: The slaying of the people who do not worship the beast (Revelation XIII: 14-15);

f. 27v: The Lamb adored on Mount Sion (Revelation XIV: 1);

f. 28r: The elders around the throne of God (Revelation XIV: 2-5):

f. 28v: The First Angel preaching to the dwellers on earth (Revelation XIV: 6-7);

f. 29r: The Second Angel tells of the fall of Babylon (Revelation XIV: 8); f. 34r: The Third Angel and the beast;

f. 29v: Blessed are those who die in the Lord (Revelation XIV: 13);

f. 30r: The harvest of the earth (Revelation XIV: 14-16);

f. 30v: The vintage (Revelation XIV: 17-18);

f. 31r: The seven angels with vials and with harps (Revelation XV: 1);

f. 31v: The opening of the Tabernacle (Revelation XV: 5-6);

f. 32r: The giving of the vials (Revelation XV: 7);

f. 32v: The First Vial poured on the earth (Revelation XVI: 1-2); the Second Vial poured on the sea (Revelation XV: 3);

f. 33r: The Third Vial poured on the rivers (Revelation XVI: 4);

f. 33v: The Fourth Vial poured on the sun (Revelation XVI: 8-9); the Fifth Vial poured on the seat of the beast (Revelation XVI: 10-11);

f. 34r: The Sixth Vial poured on the Euphrates River (Revelation XVI: 12); frogs come out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet (Revelation XVI: 13);

f. 34v: The Seventh Vial: the earthquake and destruction of the earth (Revelation XVI: 17-21);

f. 35r: The wicked woman seated on the waters (Revelation XVII: 1-2);

f. 35v: The wicked woman seated on the beast (Revelation XVII: 3-5);

f. 36r: The wicked woman drunk with the blood of the saints (Revelation XVII: 6);

f. 37v: John, the angel and the fall of Babylon (Revelation XVIII: 1-3);

f. 38r: The lament of the people over the sins of Babylon (Revelation: XVIII: 4-19);

f. 38v: The lament of the kings (Revelation: XVIII: 9-10);

f. 39v: The angel casts the millstone into the sea (Revelation: XVIII: 21-24);

f. 40r: Triumph in Heaven (Revelation XIX: 4-6);

f. 40v: The marriage feast of the Lamb (Revelation: XIX: 8-9);

f. 41r: The angel asks John to write and he kneels before the angel (Revelation XIX: 9);

f. 41v: The white horseman with the sword in his mouth;

f. 42r: The army of Heaven (Revelation XIX: 11-16); the birds battle the army of the beast (Revelation XIX: 17-19);

f. 42v: The battle with the beast and the defeat of the beast (Revelation XIX: 20-21);

f. 43r: The dragon chained and cast into the mouth of hell (Revelation XX: 2-3);

f. 43v: The first Resurrection (Revelation XX: 4-5);

f. 44r: The battle with Satan (Revelation XX: 7);

f. 44v: The casting into hell (Revelation XX: 9-10); the Judgement (Revelation XX: 11-15);

f. 45v: The Holy City descending from Heaven (Revelation XXI: 1-4);

f. 46v: John is led by the angel (Revelation XXI: 8-9);

f. 47r: The New Jerusalem (Revelation XXI: 10-14);

f. 48v: The River of Life (Revelation XXII: 1-2);

f. 49r: John kneels before Christ (Revelation XXII: 16-17);

f. 50r: John and the angel receive the prophecy from Christ (Revelation XXII: 18-19).

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex, 50 folios.

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Languages:

English, Middle
French, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 320/5 x 180/90 (250 x 140) mm.

Layout: two columns.

Foliation: ff. 50 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end)

Script: Gothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Perhaps the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Reading: an anathema on f. 1r, partially erased, ' Est liber...quem qui celaverit, alienaverit vel fraudem inde fecerit, anathema fiat. Amen'; the name of the owner is no longer legible, but the form of the anathema suggests possible Reading abbey ownership. The script is neat and probably of the first half of the 14th century.

Added marginal translation in English in a hand of the second half of the 15th century.

Basil Fielding (b. c.1608 d. 1675), Earl of Denbigh: his armorial bookplate, dated 1703 on f. i; bought by the British Museum on 10 May 1851 (a note on f. iv).

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Publications:

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 8.

Paul Meyer, 'Version Anglo-Normande en vers de l'Apocalypse', Romania, 25 (1896), 174-257 (pp. 178-79).

Léopold Delisle and Paul Meyer, L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Bibl. Nat. Fr. 403) (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1901), pp. cxxiv-cxxvi.and cclxxx-cclxxxi.

Montague Rhodes James, The Apocalypse in Art, The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1927 (London: British Academy, 1931), no. 37.

Brent A. Pitts, 'Versions of the Apocalypse in Medieval French Verse', Speculum, 58 (1983), 31-59, as 'A'.

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. 65.

Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 478.

Nigel J. Morgan, 'The Torments of the Damned in Hell in Texts and Images in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries', in Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Nigel Morgan (Donington: Shaun tyas, 2004), pp. 250-60 (p. 256).

Nancy Ross, 'Forgotten Revelation: The Iconographic Development of the Anglo-Norman Verse and Early Prose Apocalypse Manuscripts' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006), pp. 149-50, figs, online at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYW5jeXJvc3N8Z3g6NThmNDJmNmRiYzA0YzZlOA

Brent Pitts and Shearle Furnish, 'The Middle English Apocalypse Gloss in British Library MS Additional 18633', Notes and Queries, 53.3 (2006), 293-95.

Nigel J. Morgan, ‘The Bohun Apocalypse’, in Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinsky (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 91-110 (p. 94).

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