Yale Center for British Art

Title:

[Apocalypsis sancti Johannis].

Alternate Title(s):

Title from banderole in first illustration: Conuersi ab ydolis p[er] predicatione[m] b[ea]ti joha[n]nis drusiana [et] ceteri.

Published / Created:

[Germany] : [Publisher not identified], [approximately 1465]

Physical Description:

[48] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 38 cm (folio)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0004
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Block book. Woodcut illustrations and xylographic texts on 48 leaves printed in black ink one side only.

A cycle of 92 pictures illustrating the Apocalypse, arranged in two registers on 48 leaves, except for the full-page representations on 32(32) and 33(33). Cf. Schreiber.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, IV, p. 160-166

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum (BM 15th cent.), I, p. 3 (IB.41)

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0004: Imperfect: leaf [19] only, with two scenes, hand-colored. At top: woman, sun, and seven-headed dragon; at bottom: St. Michael, angels, and the dragon. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Bible. Revelation -- Illustrations. | Apocalypse in art -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Block books. | Incunabula. | Fragments (object portions) | Hand coloring.