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Detailed record for Additional 38842
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| Title |
Apocalypse with commentary in French prose (a fragment from chapters 9-16) |
| Origin |
England, S. (London?) |
| Date |
1325-1330 |
| Language |
French (Anglo-Norman) |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
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). |
| Decoration |
18 framed miniatures in colours with gold. Large initials in gold, on rose and blue grounds with filigree decoration in white. |
| Dimensions in mm |
290 x 195 (215 x 135) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 8 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 24 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1916. |
| Provenance |
Bought by the British Museum from an unidentified seller at Sothebys, London, 6 April 1914, lot 678, for £150. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
According to Morgan, 'French Interpretations' (2000), one of 12 English Apocalypses of the first half of the 14th century with for the most part a different iconographic tradition than most of those of the same text produced in France.
The text is close to that of the Queen Mary Apocalypse. |
| Select bibliography |
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). |
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f. 1
The angel and the seven thunders |
f. 1v
St John takes the book from the angel and eats it |
f. 2
An angel gives St John the reed and the temple is demolished |
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f. 2v
The two witnesses prophesy |
f. 3
The temple of God and the woman in glory |
f. 3v
The woman and child; Michael and his angels |
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f. 4
The dragon and devils falling into Hell; the dragon vomiting water |
f. 4v
The beast rises from the sea |
f. 5
Men worship the dragon and the beast |
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f. 5v
Three men worship the beast while four lie dead |
f. 6
Text page |
f. 6v
The lamb on the mount |
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f. 7
The Judgement of the Wicked and the Harvest of the Earth |
f. 7v
The seven angels and the victors over the prostrate beast |
f. 8
The seven angels with golden vials |
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f. 8v
The angels pour out the plagues from their vials |
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