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Two manuscripts do not have a separate text, but incorporate excerpts from the text into the illustrations. The illustrations can be divided into several iconographic groups. This is a not exhaustive list of known English Apocalypse manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries. Berlin, Kupferstichkabinet Blatt Inv. No. 1247
Williams, John, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination New York: George Braziller, 1977. Williams, John. The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, Volume 1, Introduction. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1994.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
Beatus divided the biblical text into 68 sections or storiae, of around a dozen verses. The Vulgate text was written out, then followed by an illustration, after which came his commentary on the section. It is now generally agreed that the illustrations were included from Beatus's original version(s) onwards, although only later manuscripts ...
The addition of illuminations to his manuscript were thus a very deliberate decision, and he believed that by having the illuminations, it further visualizes the events of The Revelation in his Commentary of the Apocalypse. [2] All together, the text of the manuscript and the illustrations unify Beatus's religious ideas.
It may find an origin in the apocryphal Apocalypse of Thomas [3] and is found in many post-millennial manuscripts in Latin and in the vernacular. References to it occur in a great multitude and variety of literary works, and via the Cursor Mundi it may have found its way even into the early modern period, in the works of William Shakespeare .
Bruce Codex contains the first and second Books of Jeu and three fragments – an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text "On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst". Codex Tchacos, 4th century, contains the Gospel of Judas, the First Apocalypse of James, the Letter of Peter to Philip, and a fragment of Allogenes.
3 (Greek Apocalypse of) Baruch (Christian utilizing Jewish sources, c. 1st–2nd cent. AD) Apocalypse of Abraham (Jewish primarily, c. 70–150 AD) Apocalypse of Adam (Gnostic derived from Jewish sources from c. the 1st cent. AD) Apocalypse of Elijah (both Jewish and Christian, c. 150–275 AD) Apocalypse of Daniel (present form c. 9th cent. AD ...