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Other identifiers: the Corpus Apocalypse
Physical description: vellum, 371 × 255 mm, 72 + v fols., 2 cols.; lavishly illustrated
Language: Latin and Anglo-Norman
Date: 1330–1339
Provenance: Made for Sir Henry de Cobham in London, ca. 1330–1339; after his death (1339), passed to Juliana de Leybourne (d. 1367) Countess of Huntingdon; she bequeathed it to St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury; thence to Corpus Christi College sometime after the dissolution of monasteries (1539).
Contents:
Apocalypse of Paul (in Anglo-Norman verse, fols. 61r–66r; in Latin prose, fols. 66r–67v)
Additional Contents: Revelation, Order of Coronation of a King.
Catalogs and studies:
Barker-Benfield, B. C. St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. Vol. 13. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. London: British Library in association with the British Academy, 2008.
Burrows, Daron, Christopher de Hamel, Peter K. Klein, and Nigel J. Morgan. The Corpus Apocalypse: Commentary to the Facsimile Edition. Luzern: Quaternio Verlag Luzern, 2012.
The Corpus Apocalypse/Die Corpus-Christi-Apokalypse Facsimile Edition. Luzern: Quaternio Verlag Luzern, 2012.
James, M. R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909–1912 (vol. 1, pp. 37–41).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Stephen C. E. Hopkins, University of Central Florida ([email protected]), 30 October 2022.