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The Douce Apocalypse is an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Revelation, dating from the third quarter of the 13th century, preserved in the Bodleian Library under the reference Douce 180. The manuscript contains 97 miniatures. It has been called "one of the glories of English thirteenth-century painting". [1]
The iconography used in this manuscript can be traced to Valenciennes influence. [3] However, the Bamberg Apocalypse stands out on its own for its innovative representations of biblical text. For example, this manuscript is credited to being the first surviving representation of the Last Judgement within a manuscript. On Folio 27v of the ...
Pages in category "Paintings based on the Book of Revelation" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000. [164] Lester Sumrall: This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000. [165] Jonathan Edwards: This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year. [166] 1 Jan 2000 Various
Amillennialists believe the end times encompass the time from Christ's ascension to the last day, and maintain that the mention of the "thousand years" in the Book of Revelation is meant to be taken metaphorically (i.e., not literally), a view which continues to cause divisions within Protestant Christianity.
The final part of the manuscript shows scenes from the final book of the New Testament, The Revelation of St. John the Divine, announcing the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ. The visions of St. John are presented across nineteen surviving sheets (some are missing) and covers Revelation 1:12–18, St. John's vision of Christ and ...
The Apocalypse Tapestry is a large medieval set of tapestries commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382.It depicts the story of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation by Saint John the Divine in colourful images, spread over six tapestries that originally totalled 90 scenes, and were about six metres high, and 140 metres long in total.
Paul Meyer and Léopold Delisle, in their book L'Apocalypse en français au XIII e siècle (Paris MS fr. 403), 2 vols., Paris, 1901, [1] were the first scholars to try to list, describe and categorize the Apocalypse manuscripts. M. R. James also wrote about illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts in his book The Apocalypse in Art, London, 1931. [2]