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Detailed record for Additional 22493
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| Title |
Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus |
| Origin |
France, N.E. (Lorraine: Metz or Verdun) |
| Date |
4th quarter of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| 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. |
| Dimensions in mm |
240 x 180 (200 x 135) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 4 (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Marbled with brown leather spine and corners. |
| Provenance |
Bought by the British Museum from Messrs Boone, London booksellers, 24 July, 1858. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Contains Revelation, 5: 6-14, 6:1-8 and 19: 11-17,
One of the two earliest Lorraine Apocalypses, according to Morgan, French Interpretations (2000).
A paired manuscript with the Burckhardt-Wildt fragments: see Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. 5.
The illumination in Walters Art Gallery, MS W. 127, a missal associated with the Premonstratensian order in the Diocese of Toul (in present-day Lorraine, France), is stylistically similar to the present manuscript and the Burckhardt-Wildt fragments. |
| Select bibliography |
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,
Leopold 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 in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907)
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. 137-156 (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). |
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f, 1
The Red Horse |
f. 1v
The White Horse |
f. 2
The Lamb receives the Book |
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f. 2v
Worship of the Lamb |
f. 3
The Black Horse |
f. 3v
The Pale Horse |
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f. 4v
The birds summoned |
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