The Apocalypse: The Colorful Medieval Illustrations About The End of The Days, 1330
The Dragon and the Beasts Cast into Hell
The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, was, according to European medieval tradition, written by John the Evangelist during his exile on the Greek island of Patmos.
The opening chapters recount God’s instructions to the bishops of the seven churches in Asia Minor. The following chapters describe John’s extraordinary account of events to come at the end of time. The colorful illustrations of this manuscript bring these dream-like prophecies to life.
A partly effaced coat of arms within the book suggests that it was created for an aristocratic couple in Normandy, the wife apparently a member of the de Montigny family.
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The Beast Wages War against the Saints
Saint Michael Defeating the Beasts
The Opening of the Fourth Seal, Pestilence
The Army of Horsemen
The Locusts Wage War
Satan Released from Prision
An Image of the Beast of the Sea Fashioned
The Beast of the Earth
The Unclean Spirits
The Beast of the Sea
The Dragon Wages War
The Woman Escapes
The Dragon and the Woman
The Beast of the Sea and the Dragon Worshiped
The Worshipers of the Beast Receive His Mark
The Fifth Trumpet Sounded, The First Woe
A Storm; The Woman and the Dragon
The Opening of the Book
