Unexpected affinities among three illuminated copies of the glossed french prose Apocalypse: Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.1.1; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 38; and Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 5214

• Gross, Karen Elizabeth ^[1]
  1. [1] Lewis & Clarke College
• Localización: Manuscripta, ISSN 0025-2603, ISSN-e 2031-0226, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 231-256
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.1.1; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 38; and Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 5214 are all three early fourteenth-century illuminated English manuscripts containing the Anglo- Norman glossed prose Apocalypse. Otherwise, though, these three codices appear to be quite dissimilar. They do not share scribes or artists. While their iconographic programs all derive from the Corpus-Lambeth stem of Apocalypse iconography, significant departures in the execution of the miniatures argue that Cambridge Gg.1.1, Selden Supra 38, and Arsenal 5214 do not rely on the same sources for their miniatures. Furthermore, their variations in size, contents, and, in the case of Arsenal 5214, miseenpage suggest that these three productions were intended for different purposes. Close study of the text itself, however, reveals that these three manuscripts must be intimately related, raising questions as to how textual exemplars with complex illustrative programs circulated.