The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1971
Photography: William F. Pons, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Printer: Conzett and Huber, Zurich (Switzerland)

The terrifying visions of the Apostle John are presented in this manuscript with unexpected restraint and graciousness. Courtly, elegant figures are moving about in a generally orderly setting; there is no real chaos or disruption. Even the beasts are somehow well-behaved, rather than frightening.







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Scriptum super Apocalypsim