Apocalypse et la Vie de saint Jean en images / The British Library, Londres / Cote : Add. Ms. 38121 Date : vers 1400 / Emílio Rui Vilar / Nigel Morgan / Suzanne Lewis / Aires Nascimento / Michelle P. Brown

Bound in luxurious brown-marron leather with gilt lettering, housed in a slipcase with gold motifs. 100 pages, 94 illuminations with gold richly decorated miniatures, either full-page or arranged across the page in multiple pictorial strips. Full-colour facsimile edition. Size: 32 × 23 cm. ****NUMBERED COPY NO. 418 OF A LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION OF 987 COPIES, ISSUED WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY.*** Includes a full-colour commentary volume, 276 pages, hardcover with dustjacket, text by Richard K. Emmerson. ISBN 9788488526793. Origine : sud des Pays-Bas; Illustrated Apocalypse which also features a series of illuminations on the life of Saint John the Evangelist as an introduction and colophon. It was produced around 1400 in the southern Netherlands. Its iconographic cycle is very similar to that of other 13th-century English Apocalypses ? also told in images. The illustrations in the codex are not only abundant, but also appealing in their colour, freshness and dynamism. Moreover, the narrative eloquence is such that it inevitably refers to the iconographic tradition of picture books and their entertaining nature. 0 g.