1958 Die Bamberger Apokalypse, Neunundfunfzig Farbtafeln

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

A limited edition work, with this being number 119 of 500 number copies, out of a total of 650 copies produced.

The original manuscript, created around 1000–1020, likely at the monastery of Reichenau, is a masterpiece of Ottonian art and contains the complete Latin text of the Book of Revelation, illustrated with miniatures.

Illustrated with fifty-nine vibrant facsimile plates of the illuminated manuscript.

Collated, complete.

This facsimile was produced to make the manuscript’s visual and theological splendour more accessible to scholars and collectors.

With the bookplate of the General Theological Seminary Library to the front pastedown.

With bibliographical information and historical context to the rear in the original German.

In morocco-backed vellum covered boards, hand bound by Willy Pingel of Heidelberg.