This edition of the Book of Revelation is distinguished by 99 remarkable and imaginatively beautiful accompanying images derived from 10th and 11th century illuminated manuscript versions of the ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse’.To these are added a series of illuminated miniatures from the Bamberg Apocalypse dating from 1020, and from the Ottheinrich Bible, commissioned in c.1425 by the Royal Court of Bavaria.
14,500 words, 99 full colour images, with a new and original chapter on the Beatus tradition.