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Add MS 22493
- Record Id:
- 032-002096454
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096454
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x00025f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057737566.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22493
- Title:
- Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4).
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Apocalypse with commentary by Berengaudus (Fragment):
f. 1r-4v: 'Et cum appervisset agnus sigillum secundum'. Ending: 'terre ac populi qui eis subicientur'.
The manuscript includes the same gloss as in Additional 22493:
f. 1v: 'Apertio primi signaculi ad ea que ante diluvium facta sunt pertinet'.
Decoration:
8 half-page framed miniatures in colours with gold on gold or diapered grounds. Initials, two to a page, in gold on rose and blue grounds with decoration.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
f. 1r: The second seal: the rider on the red horse in chain mail with a sword; a lion appears to John from heaven (Revelation 6:1-2);
f. 1v: The first seal: the rider on the white horse (depicted as blue with white spots) holding a bow and arrow; an angel hands a scroll to John (Revelation 6:7-8);
f. 2r: The Lamb takes the book with Seven Seals from the Lord; they are in a mandorla and surrounded by the four beasts of the Apocalypse and angels and kings (Revelation 6:7);
f. 2v: The Lamb on his throne surrounded by the four Beasts and the Elders (Revelation 6: 6);
f. 3r: The third seal: the rider on the black horse holding scales or balances; an ox appears to John from heaven (Revelation 6:5);
f. 3v: The fourth seal: the rider on the pale Horse with a sword and a hell mouth and fire consuming souls behind him; an eagle appears to John from heaven (Revelation 6:7-8);
f. 4r: A rider on a white horse appears with a sword in his mouth; the armies of heaven clothed in white, follow him; John watches as the Lord treads the winepress ((Revelation 19: 11-16);
f. 4v: An angel standing in the sun calls the birds together to eat the flesh of the fallen kings and their armies (Revelation 19: 17-18).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002096454", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 22493: Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096454
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002096454
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 4 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057737566.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 180 (200 x 135) mm.
Layout: 20 lines in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 4 (+8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end).
Script: Gothic (textualis).
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled with brown leather spine and corners.
- Custodial History:
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Origine: France, North-East (Lorraine: Metz or Verdun).
Provenance:
Bought by the British Museum from Messrs Boone, London booksellers, 24 July, 1858 (f. iii); placed on deposit on 17 April 1858.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 651
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. 9.
Léopold Delisle and Paul Meyer, L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Bibl. Nat. Fr. 403) (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1901), no. 51.
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei inNordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), p. 224.
Montague Rhodes James, The Apocalypse in Art, The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1927 (London: British Academy, 1931), no. 51.
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. 66.
Lilian M. C. Randall and others, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), I: France, 875-1420, no. 127.
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), p. 82. [exhibition catalogue].
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 (pp. 140-41, 144, pl. 7).
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. 95).
Nigel J. Morgan, ‘History and context of illustrated Apocalypses’, in Apocalipsis Yates Thompson (MS. 10) (London: British Library, 2010), 11-22 (p. 20).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)