Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 394: Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman

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Summary
CCCC MS 394, dating to c. 1300, is an illustrated Apocalypse, with the text and commentary in Anglo-Norman prose, which was made in England. It was bequeathed in 1439 to the College by Thomas Markaunt (c. 1382-1439), fellow, among 76 books. Only five of these books still remain in the College Library; the others must have been dispersed at some time in the sixteenth century. The illustrations are related to several other copies of the Anglo-Norman prose Apocalypse made in England in the late thirteenth and first half of the fourteenth century. This copy is by a relatively unskilled artist, whose coloured drawings are inferior to many of the other manuscripts of this group.
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Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman

Description

Alternative title Apocalypsis Gallice
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 79
Date created [ca. 1300 - 1325]
Language French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material Vellum
Layout 23 lines to a page
Height (mm) 225
Width (mm) 166
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-10(8) (wants 8).
Writing in a fine large hand
Foliation ff. a-b + i + 1-79 + c-d
Provenance Given originally by T. Markaunt: it appears as no. 72 in the list of his gifts, Sources of Abp Parker's Collection, p. 81., The treatment of pictures nos. 6 and 69 is characteristic of a considerable group of Apocalypses, perhaps East Anglian.
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Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mt794qs3750/MS_394.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cg214nn7948/394.pdf
Contains
Title
Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman. 1r-79v
James
Apocalypsis Gallice. 1r-79v
Note
The Apocalypse in French, with comment
Incipit
(1r) (Prologue) Seint pol le apostle dist ke tuz iceus ke uoillent piement uiuere en ihesu crist sufferunt persecucion
Explicit
(2r) ke a nul home ne list a dire
Incipit
(2r) E seint Johan en cest manere vist
Explicit
(2v) seueraument entendre e dit
Incipit
(2v) Io Iohan nostre frere e parcener en tribulacion
(3r) Par seint Johan sunt signefie li bon prelat
Note
Ends
Explicit
(79v) ke nus puissum oue lui en sa glorie en cors e en alme saunz fin regner. Amen
Note
See L. Delisle and P. Meyer, L'Apocalypse au Français, Soc. des Anc. Textes Franç. pp. cclviii, cclxxi
(79v) Scribbled at the end (xv-xvi) : Sancte | G. G | Garoges Boke
The pictures in the text are very rough. Plain frames, green and yellow. Grounds, blue and pink, often parti-coloured
(1r) 1. Initial, Paul with sword. Peacock in lower margin
(2v) 2. John addresses crowd
(3r) 3. Vision of Christ among candlesticks
(4v) 4. John recumbent. Angel wakes him
(5r) 5. John at desk. Angel flies down behind him
(10r) 6. John climbs ladder to door in heaven. Angel in it
(10v) 7. Christ and Elders
(13r) 8. Lamb and Beasts. Elders hold crowns, two kneel
(14r) 9. Christ in C., John and Elders L., Angel R.
(15r) 10. Lamb full of eyes. Elders harping
(15r) 11. Lamb, Angels and Elders
(16v) 12-15. ff. 16v-19r. The four Horsemen
(19r) 16. White robes given to souls
(19v) 17. Sun and moon darkened. Men under mountains
(21r) 18. Four angels hold heads of beasts (winds)
(21r) 19. Angel holds long cross (Seal of God)
(22r) 20. God, the Lamb, Angels. White-robed men with palms
(22v) 21. John and Elders
(23r) 22. Censing angel. God. Seven angels with trumpets
(24v) 23. First Trumpet. Owl on tree
(25r) 24. Second Trumpet
(25v) 25. Third Trumpet
(26r) 26. Fourth Trumpet. Beast, crowned, ascends
(28r) 27. Sixth Trumpet. Angels in water (Euphrates) with cord about their necks held by an angel
(28v) 28. Horsemen
(29v) 29. Great Angel. Seven thunders (Beasts' heads). Owl on tree
(31r) 30. John takes book from Angel
(31r) 31. John holds long cross (reed). Worshippers in temple
(32r) 32. The witnesses, tonsured, in white, preaching
(33r) 33. Their ascension. The earthquake, etc.
(34v) 34. Christ and Elders. Seventh trumpet
(35r) 35. Woman in sky. John and angel watch
(36r) 36. Woman in bed, and child. Dragon
(37r) 37. Angels fight dragon and devils
(37v) 38. Dragon, etc. falling
(38r) 39. Dragon casts forth water. Winged woman
(39v) 40. Seven-headed beast in sea
(40r) 41. Dragon and worshippers
(41v) 42. Two-horned beast and worshippers
(43r) 43. Lamb on Sion
(44v) 44. Angel in air proclaiming. God, etc. on L. Men below
(45r) 45. Babylon falls
(46v) 46. Christ with sickle
(47v) 47. Vintage. Horses walk in blood
(48r) 48. White-robed harpers
(49v) 49. Angels with vials
(50v) 50. 1st and 2nd vials
(52v) 51. Frogs proceed from mouth of beast, etc.
(53v) 52. Seventh vial
(54v) 53. Vision of the Harlot
(56r) 54. Dragon goes into pit
(58v) 55. City falls. Saint leads men out
(62r) 56. Millstone cast into sea
(63r) 57. Christ and Elders
(64v) 58. Christ on horse. Saints follow
(66r) 59. Angel summons birds
(66r) 60. Beast, etc. cast into fire
(67r) 61. Dragon shut into pit
(67v) 62. Dead rise in white. Nimbed Saints seated on L.
(69v) 63. Christ as Judge. Dead on R.and L.
(70r) 64. John looks at the new Jerusalem
(70v) 65. John and the angel with vial. Jerusalem on R.
(73r) 66. John and angel. Lamb on R.
(76r) 67. God and Lamb. River flows out of altar on which He stands. Trees, and John and angel on R.
(78r) 68. John and angel with book
(78v) 69. John with long cross addresses seated group
TJames 121
Stanley L. 2
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/yc646yt3082
Location MS 394
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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