Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 394: Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman
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- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 394: Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman
- Alternate Title:
- Apocalypsis Gallice
- Language:
- French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
- Extent:
- ff. 1 + 79
- Dimensions:
- 225 Height (mm) and 166 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1300 - 1325]
- 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. and The treatment of pictures nos. 6 and 69 is characteristic of a considerable group of Apocalypses, perhaps East Anglian.
- Table of contents:
- Apocalypse in Anglo-Norman
- Description:
- 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.