The Apocalypse of Saint-Sever
France, eleventh century
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (France)
Ms. Latin 8878
Date of Publication: 1942
Publisher: Les Editions de Cluny, Paris (France)
Printer: Presses de Mourlot Frères, Paris (France)
Lithographer: Jean Mourlot
Three folios of this striking manuscript were reproduced in the mid-ninenteenth century
Peintures et Ornements des Manuscrits by the comte Auguste de Bastard d'Etang,
by means of the new chromolithography process which reproduced in fact an artist's
copy of the original. With the advent of photography and the development of techniques
for transferring photographed images to the printer's plate, more folios of the
manuscript were reproduced with greater accuracy, but in black and white. Using the
recently developed techniques for transferring color photography to the printer's plate,
a set of color facsimiles was published in 1942 for the illuminations of this eleventh-century
manuscript of the text of the
Apocalypse with the earliest version of the
commentary by Beatus.
There was no attempt at reproducing the text in this facsimile, but the influence of
the Spanish Beatus manuscripts is clear.
fols. 108v-109r
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