The Apocalypse of Saint-SeverFrance, eleventh century
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (France)
Date of Publication: 1942 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 (64k)
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