Nigel J. Morgan

The visionary nature of the Apocalypse—the biblical book of Revelation—along with its detailed descriptions of the end of the world have long made it ideal for illustration. Illuminated texts of the Apocalypse were particularly popular in thirteenth-century England, and the copy in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, with its lively narrative miniatures, stands as a testament to the artistic heights achieved during that period. In this richly illustrated book, all eighty-two of the manuscript's images are reproduced in color for the first time. They are accompanied by a full commentary. A general introduction to the history of thirteenth-century English illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts is followed by a succinct study of the artistic context of the Getty's manuscript, as well as a consideration of its style and date. The rest of the commentary is devoted to a stylistic and iconographic analysis of the manuscript's images; there is also a complete translation of the text.

The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript

Illuminating the End of Time

Early Industrial Housing in a Lancashire Cotton Town, Preston

Vanished Dwellings

Ian Short

Teresa Webber

Accompanying CD-ROM includes the texts, glosses and translations or versions.

(Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2)

The Trinity Apocalypse

The theme of the 17th Harlaxton Symposium was predetermined by the fact that it was held in 2000. The twenty-one papers turn their attention to the fear of cataclysm and the end of the world that obsessed many writers, artists and thinkers in medieval Europe, not only around the year 1000 but at other key dates during the Middle Ages, anyone of which was viewed as a possible candidate for the Day of Doom. Subjects include: the Revolution of 1399; astrology; the presentation of the Apocalypse in manuscripts, tapestries, stained glass windows and other media; the Pearl poem; the Westminster Abbey Sanctuary pavement as a means of calculating the lifespan of the universe; prophecy in the Sibylla Tiburtina; Matthew Paris; prose sermons; the Peasants' Revolt; Wells Cathedral.

Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium

Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom

Ian R. Willison

Formerly Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism D F McKenzie

D. F. McKenzie

Richard Gameson

Michael F. Suarez

David McKitterick

Claire Squires

Andrew Nash

Joseph Burney Trapp

Maureen Bell

Michael L. Turner

John Barnard

Lotte Hellinga

Rodney M. Thomson

This volume contains thirty-eight chapters on print culture in a time of religious divisions and civil war.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

Nigel J. Morgan

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