The Getty Apocalypse

This commentary studies a mid-thirteenth-century English illuminated manuscript of the Book of Revelation, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, together with extracts from the Latin commentary of Berengaudus that originally sat beside the biblical text. Morgan translates the wording, identifies the cycle of framed miniatures and historiated initials, and sets the book among other English Apocalypses made when preachers and disasters had raised fear of the last days. Missing leaves are compared with a related manuscript. The volume is a scholarly reading of one illustrated Revelation, not a general history of the Middle Ages and not a silent facsimile without argument.

Quarter bound in Wassa goatskin with parchment sides blocked in four foils with a design by David Eccles, gilded and shuffled page edges, ribbon marker. Commentary volume by Nigel J. Morgan, bound in buckram, blocked in gold with a design. Solander box in maroon buckram with elaborate title blocked in gold and black on spine.