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LIFE OF SAINT JOHN AND THE APOCALYPSE - One-time only limited-edition facsimile

About the Item

This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages, the Life of Saint John and the Apocalypse, owned by the British Library, made by combining the highest technology with the mastery of the craftsmen bookbinders who have handmade its binding using only 100% full grain naturally tanned leather. Illustrated Apocalypse containing, as an introduction and colophon, a series of illuminations about the life of its author, St. John the Evangelist. The manuscript was created around 1400, in the South of the Netherlands. Its iconographic cycle is very similar to some thirteenth-century picture-book Apocalypses made in England, such as Ms. M. 524 in the Morgan Library or the Bodleian Library´s Ms. D. IV. 17. Not only are the manuscript´s illustrations numerous, but they are particularly attractive for their use of colour, freshness and dynamism. In addition, the narrative eloquence of the images conveys the iconographic tradition of illustrated stories whilst providing great entertainment. Their pleasant, joyous tone could be linked to the didactic intention of the artist or commissioner of the manuscript. The clear predominance of images over text and the insertion of textual inscriptions within the miniatures would support this theory. The codex belonged to Alfred Henry Huth (1850- 1910), English collector and bibliophile from a family of bankers, who helped found the Bibliographical Society of London. Possessing a great fortune, Alfred Henry Huth devoted himself to the study and collection of books, like his father, Henry Huth. Huth stated in his will that upon his death the British Museum would have the right to choose 50 volumes from his collection. Huth´s ex libris, pasted inside this book, indicates that this was one of the 50 volumes chosen by the British Museum in 1910.

Dimensions:

Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)

Style:

Renaissance (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Leather,Metal

Place of Origin:

Netherlands

Period:

2010-

Date of Manufacture:

2017