Douce Apocalypse | |
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Bibliothèque nationale de France | |
Date | 1354 X 1372 |
Place of origin | England |
Language(s) | Old French and Latin |
Patron | Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile |
Material | Parchment |
Size | 31.1 centimetres (12.2 in) x 20.3 centimetres (8.0 in) |
Contents | Book of Revelation and commentary |
Accession | Douce 180 |
The Douce Apocalypse is an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Revelation, dating from the third quarter of the 13th century, preserved in the Bodleian Library under the reference Douce 180. The manuscript contains 97 miniatures. It has been called "one of the glories of English thirteenth-century painting".[1]