medieval illuminated manuscripts june calendar

#Medieval illuminated manuscripts june calendar series#

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Two profusely illustrated examples, in Old Slavonic, are on display. Two Flemish examples from the second half of the fifteenth century are also included in the exhibition.Ī large group of Apocalypse manuscripts was produced in Russia from the sixteenth to the very early twentieth centuries, some having cycles of seventy-two miniatures. It was illustrated by an anonymous artist who is named the Master of the Berry Apocalypse, after this manuscript. Also on view is an independent French cycle created for the great bibliophile Jean Duc de Berry (ca. Owned by the Morgan, it is considered to be among the earliest examples of this tradition. The Anglo-Norman Apocalypse cycle originated during the second quarter of the thirteenth century and is represented here by a manuscript that was made in London (ca. 945) in the famous tower scriptorium of the monastery of San Salvador de Tabara, it is the most important Spanish illuminated manuscript in the United States. The exhibition also includes one of the earliest surviving illuminated manuscripts in the Spanish tradition. Because the manuscript was disbound for the preparation of the facsimile, visitors to the exhibition have the rare opportunity to view fifty of the Las Huelgas miniatures the leaves are displayed in their original order.

#Medieval illuminated manuscripts june calendar series#

The series is considered Spain's most important contribution to medieval manuscript illumination. The Las Huelgas Apocalypse is the largest and latest (1220) of a five-hundred-year series of medieval illuminated commentaries on the Apocalypse by the monk Beatus of Liébana. Drawn entirely from the Morgan's renowned collections, the show celebrates the completion of a facsimile of the Morgan's Las Huelgas Apocalypse and also includes examples from Spanish, French, Flemish, and Russian traditions. In this exhibition, the Book of Revelation, in all of its complexity, is seen through the eyes of some of the greatest medieval illuminators.