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- Record Id:
- 040-002057328
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002057322
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001102.0x0003ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057737717.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 38118
- Title:
- Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '.
ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit avec nous, amen'.
ff. 2r-44r: Gloss: 'Par saint Iehan sont segnefie li bon prelat de sainte eglise qui ont la voiz de levangile'. Ending: 'en cors et en ame sanz fin regner. Amen'.
f. 44v: addition of a slightly later hand of the early 14th century (17 lines) related to the feast of Saint Leobonus of Salagnac: 'Oratio Beati Leoboni cuius festivitas fit .xiii. mensis Octobris'.
Decoration:
One framed miniature and a large initial with a partial border with animals and foliate decoration in colours with gold. 69 framed column-width miniatures in blue, rose and white with gold, on gold or diapered grounds, sometimes 2 or 3 to a page (ff. 2, 2v, 3, 3v, 6v passim). Numerous initials in gold on blue and rose grounds.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
f. 1r: St Paul writing at a lectern;
f. 2r: An angel appears to St John the Divine (Revelation 1: 4-11);
f. 2v: St John kneels to the Lord, who blesses him; he has a sword in his mouth and points to seven candlesticks behind him (Revelation 1: 12-20);
f. 3r: The seven churches of Asia minor (Revelation 2-3);
f. 3v: St John asleep on the island of Naxos (Revelation 1);
f. 6v: John’s vision of Heaven with the Lord in a mandorla holding a book, surrounded by crowned Elders (Revelation 4:14-22);
f. 8r: The Lord enthroned holding a book in a diamond-shaped frame surrounded by the four Beasts of the Apocalypse: the lion, the ox, the eagle, and the man (Revelation 6);
f. 8v: The elders worship the Lord (upper left); the lord holds the book, with John watching (lower left); the lord gives the book with the seven seals to the Lamb (Revelation 6);
f. 9v: The lamb opens the book before the four beasts and the elders, who play musical instruments;(left); the lion and the lamb, and John with a book (right);
f. 10r: The first seal: the rider on the white horse aims an arrow towards the lamb with an open book (Revelation 6:1-2);
f. 10v: The second seal: the rider on the red horse is given a sword from heaven, with John, the Ox and the Lamb present (above); the third seal: the rider on the black horse holding scales or balances, with John, the man and the Lamb present (below) (Revelation 6:3-5);
f. 11r: The fourth seal: the rider on the pale horse with a hell mouth and fire consuming souls behind him; John, the eagle and the lamb are present (left); the fifth seal: the souls of the nartyrs beneath an altar (Revelation 6:7-11);
f. 12r: The sixth seal: the earthquake, with men hiding and the angels holding the four winds (upper left); the martyrs with palms and the Lamb (lower left); angels with trumpets and the Lord holding a T-O map representing the earth (Revelation 6-7);
f. 12v: Two angels with an open censer on an altar;
f. 13v: The seventh seal: an angel pours fire from a censer on the earth (Revelation 8: 1-5);
f. 14r: An angel blows the first trumpet: hail and fire on the earth (left); the second trumpet: fire on the sea, a ship destroyed and a man drowned (right) (Revelation 8: 7-9);
f. 14v: The third trumpet: a star falls from Heaven on the rivers and fountains, making them bitter so that men sicken and die (Revelation 8: 10-11);
f. 15r: The fourth trumpet: a third of the sun and moon are darkened and an eagle watches in the sky; a man and women shelter their children under their cloaks (left); the fifth trumpet: locusts like horses emerge from a pit, led by Abaddon, and trample on the people (right) (Revelation 8-9);
f. 15v: An angel blows the sixth trumpet while John raises his hands (Revelation 9:15);
f. 16r: An angel releases four horsemen who trample on people and another angel releases the four angels (three shown here) who will slay a third of men (Revelation 9: 15-20);
f. 17r: An angel stands on the sea and the land (left); the angel gives the book to John to eat (right) (Revelation 10);
f. 18r: John with a measuring stick before the temple, and people kneeling (left); four horsemen trample on people and destroy the Holy City (Revelation 11: 1-2);
f. 19r: The two witnesses proclaim their message; people kneel with two olive trees beneath (Revelation 11: 3-4);
f. 19v: People worshipping the Lord in Heaven, who blesses them and holds a book (left); the temple in Heaven is revealed (Revelation 11: 13-19);
f. 20r: The dragon with seven heads appears in the sky (Revelation 12);
f. 20v: The dragon with seven heads attacks the woman clothed with the sun, who gives her child to an angel (left); Michael and his angels defeat the dragon (right) (Revelation 12);
f. 21r: The dragon, the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth (the false prophet) with a woman seated, addressing them and two angels watching from the clouds (Revelation 13);
f. 21v: People worship an image of the beast and receive the mark of the beast (Revelation 13);
f. 22r: The beast from the sea (Revelation 13);
f. 22v: The beast and the dragon perform false miracles (Revelation 13);
f. 23v: John’s vision of the Lamb on Mount Sion and worshippers (Revelation 14: 1);
f. 24r: Angels with musical instruments announce good news and praise the Lord, who is in a mandorla surrounded by the four beasts (14.6);
f. 24v: An angel announces the fall of Babylon (Revelation 14: 8);
f. 25v: Christ in Heaven holding a standard, an angel showing the fall of Babylon with souls in a hell-mouth (left); an angel harvesting wheat, with two other angels kneeling at an altar (right);
f. 26r: Three angels, one with a vial and one with a harp, a winged lion and fire falling from the sky;
f. 26v: The first angel pours his vial on the earth, and men with the mark of the beast are afflicted (Revelation 16: 2)
f. 27v: The second angel pours his vial on the sea, with a fish in it; (Revelation 16: 3);
f. 28v: The third angel pours his vial on the rivers and springs (Revelation 16: 4);
f. 29r: The fourth angel pours his vial on the sun and men are scorched with great heat; a devil lies in the lap of a woman (Revelation 16: 8-9);
f. 29v: The fifth angel pours his vial on the seat of the beast, and people gnaw their tongues in pain (Revelation 16: 10);
f. 30r: The sixth angel pours his vial on the Euphrates river and it dries up, opening the way for the kings of the East ; a robed figure with red creatures coming out of his mouth, perhaps the false prophet (Revelation 16: 12-14);
f. 32r: The kings come together for the great battle at Armageddon (Revelation, 16: 16)
f. 33v: The seventh angel pours his vial into the air and a city starts to fall (Revelation 16: 17-19);
f. 34r: The harlot with a mirror and goblet riding on the seven-headed Beast and the Lamb felling men with crowns and shields, while a nimbed woman, is given a scroll by an angel (Revelation 17: 3-4);
f. 35r: The harlot is stripped naked and destroyed with fire by the beast (Revelation 17:16);
f. 35v: An angel calls down the evil birds on the city of Babylon, watched by kings (Revelation 18: 2-9);
f. 36r: John watches angels and elders worshipping God in heaven and an angel casts a millstone into the sea (left); the Lord in a mandorla surrounded by the adoring multitudes and the four evangelists' symbols (right) (Revelation 19);
f. 36v: The armies of the Lord and the beast fight one another (Revelation 19: 19);
f. 37v: The Lord watches as a devil casts the beast and the false prophet into a pit of fire (Revelation 19: 20);
f. 39r: : An angel with a key leads the dragon and unlocks the pit where he will be imprisoned (left) angels and soldiers guard the place where the devils are imprisoned (Revelation 20: 1-2);
f. 39v: The dead stand before the Lord on Judgement Day (Revelation 20: 12);
f. 41r: John holds a scroll and indicates the Lord in the sky; an angel leads John by the hands (Revelation 21);
f. 43r: John’s vision of angels surrounding the plan of the new Jerusalem with the spring of the water of life flowing from it (Revelation 21-22);
f. 43v: The Lamb on its throne; John is given a measuring rod to measure the New Jerusalem and an angel hands a scroll to two figures, one of whom is a bishop in a mitre (Revelation 22).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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Add MS 38118 : Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée - Hierarchy:
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A parchment codex, 44 folios.
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 80 x 200mm (text space: 200 x 150)mm.
Layout: two columns of 30 lines.
Foliation: ff. 44 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end)
Collation: gatherings of 8 leaves.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, North or Central, (?Paris).
Provenance:
Added collect for St Leobonus, who is associated with Salagnac in Limousin (f. 44v).
The Jesuit college of Clermont, in Paris (dispersed in 1764) inscribed 'Colleg' Parisien Societ' Jesu, 44' (f. 1) and in the 1764 catalogue of the college library, (Catalogus manuscriptorum codicum Collegii Claromontani (Paris, 1764)), no. 773 (p. 294), described as: 'L'Apocalypse de Saint Jean, ou Révélation à l'Ange, traduite en François, avec des applications morales par un Auteur inconnu, 1 volume petit in-folio, de 44 feuillets, sur vélin, orné de miniatures et de lettres capitales en or bruni, bien conservé; écriture du quartozième siècle' and inscribed 'Colleg' Parisien Societ' Jesu, 44' (f. 1).
J. Frans Vandevelde, inscribed with his name and the date, 1796 (f. i verso); catalogue of his sale, Ghent 1833, p. 670, lot 14078.
Chevalier Theodore Coninck de Merckem (b. 1807, d. 1855): inscribed 'Coninck 1833' (f. i verso) and in his sale catalogue, Ghent, 11 August, 1856, p. 12, lot 24.
Alfred Henry Huth (b. 1850, d. 1910), book collector, his bookplate, inside upper cover: bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1910 (see Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts (1912), no. V).
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- Publications:
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Léopold Delisle and Paul Meyer, L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Bibl. Nat. Fr. 403) (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1901), no. 48 (when in the collection of Huth).
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts (1908), no. 91.
Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred Huth (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1912), pp. 5-6.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1925, repr. 1969), I, pp. 17-18.
Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), p. 37.
Montague Rhodes James, The Apocalypse in Art, The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1927 (London: British Academy, 1931), no. 48.
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. 68.
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. 145 n. 24, 148).
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 125, fig. 112.
Nigel J. Morgan, ‘History and context of illustrated Apocalypses’, in Apocalipsis Yates Thompson (MS. 10) (London: British Library, 2010), p. 19.
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