The Trinity Apocalypse : (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2).

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Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xv, 173 pp, colour plates, ills, cd-rom in pocket at end. This is a less expensive edition of the commentary volume that accompanied the Faksimile Verlag Luzern 2004 facsimile. From the blurb: "The Trinity Apocalypse has long been considered the finest manuscript of its kind. The text of the Book of Revelation is accompanied by a commentary and by a remarkable series of illustrations that depict the dream of John in vivid detail. Written and illustrated in England in the mid-thirteenth Century, with a text in French, it stands at the height of artistic achievement. Amidst the figures in the dream there are people and animals familiar in contemporary life, depicted with a colour and vitality whose appeal speaks over the centuries. The manuscript has belonged to Trinity College, Cambridge, since the seventeenth Century. In this volume, a group of experts has come together to consider its background, illustration, palaeography, texts, language and history. An accompanying CD contains the whole text, with an English translation. The collection, edited by the Librarian of Trinity College, offers the most detailed study of the manuscript to date." From a review by M.A. Michael in The Burlington Magazine: "Nigel Morgan contributes chapters on the book's historical context, patronage and readership, style, dating, place of production and iconography. On the accompanying unillustrated CD-Rom, Ian Short transcribes the French texts and commentary of Beren- gaudus on the Apocalypse, and provides an English translation. Teresa Webber contributes a sensitive and well-judged chapter on the codicology and palaeography and David McKitterick discusses the later history of the manuscript. The twenty-four colour plates are well chosen". Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58416

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