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Detailed record for Additional 17399
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| Title |
Apocalypse, in prose with prologue by Gilbert de la Poree |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
4th quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
One shaded ink drawing at the beginning of the Prologue (f. 2), 55 tinted drawings in yellow frames. Initials and line-fillers in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 155 (160 x 110) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 58 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 paper/parchment flyeaf at the beginning and 1 parchment flyleaf and 1 paper/parchment flyleaf and 2 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Original binding of brown leather with tooling; 4 metal bosses and two metal clasps (see Weale, Early Stamped Bindings (1922)) |
| Provenance |
Inscribed 'D. Quanbellus' in a 16th-century hand ( f.1v).
Petrus Vauldry, priest and canon of the collegiate church of St. Anathole de Salinis, Jura: his erased inscription dated 'M VI IIII' (?1640) on f. 1.
Inscribed 'Father Charoin (?) ainé, de St. Loup de Saunier, pres de Chalon-sur-Saône 1802' (Lons le Saunier, Jura) on f. 1v.
Bought by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, 8 July, 1848. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 13.
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. 17.
Samuel Berger, La bible française au moyen âge (Paris: Champion, 1884), p. 406.
Léopold Delisle and Paul Meyer, L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Bibl. Nat. Fr. 403) (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1901), p. 138, no. 53.
W.H.J. Weale , Early Stamped Bindings in the British Museum (London, 1922), no .29.
Montague Rhodes James, The Apocalypse in Art, The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1927 (London: British Academy, 1931), no. 53.
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. 64. |
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f. 13
The Lamb with the book |
f. 13v
John and the Lamb |
f. 15
The Adoration of the Lamb |
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