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  • Christ inspiring St. John
  • St. John narrates his vision
  • Christ's message to the church at Ephesus
  • Christ's message to the church at Smyrna
  • Christ's message to the church at Pergamum
  • Christ's message to the church at Thyatira
  • Christ's message to the church at Sardis
  • Christ's message to the church at Philadelphia
  • Christ's message to the church at Laodicea
  • Christ enthroned
  • Elders placing crowns before Christ
  • An angel approaches St. John
  • Christ enthroned with lamb
  • The first seal: the white rider
  • The second seal: the red rider
  • The third seal: the black rider
  • The fourth seal: the pale rider
  • The fifth seal: martyrs
  • The sixth seal: heavenly portents
  • Sealing of the 144,000
  • Those who were sealed behold the throne
  • The seventh seal: seven trumpets
  • The first trumpet: fiery hail
  • The second trumpet: destruction of ships
  • The third trumpet: destruction of the waters
  • The fourth trumpet: obscuring of the sun and moon
  • The fifth trumpet: plague of locusts
  • The sixth trumpet: army of 200,000
  • Angel presents book to St. John
  • St. John eats the book
  • The two witnesses and the beast
  • The ascension of the two witnesses
  • The seventh trumpet
  • A dragon and the woman clothed in the sun
  • War in heaven
  • The dragon pursues the woman
  • The dragon and the beast
  • The two-horned beast
  • The lamb on Mt. Sion with the 144,000
  • An angel brings the Gospel to the people
  • The fall of Babylon
  • The mark of the beast
  • The harvest of the earth
  • The winepress
  • The seven vials of plague are distributed
  • The first vial
  • The second vial
  • The third vial
  • The fourth vial
  • The fifth vial
  • The sixth vial
  • The seventh vial
  • The whore of Babylon
  • The whore of Babylon
  • Babylon
  • The punishment of the whore of Babylon
  • The bride of the lamb
  • The word of God
  • The punishment of the beast
  • The binding of the dragon
  • Wicked souls imprisoned
  • Forces of evil attack city of the saints; demons descend into hell
  • The delivering up of the dead
  • The New Jerusalem as a bride
  • Christ enthroned with angels
  • The New Jerusalem as bride of the lamb
  • The river of life proceeding from the throne of God
  • Prophets assembling in the city
  • St. John falls to the ground before the angel of his vision
  • St. John presents his book
  • St. John before Christ; Gabriel holds aloft a letter to one of the cities
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Manuscript Overview
References
Bindings & Oddities

Abstract

This manuscript was made around 1800 by the “Old Believers,” a group of Russian Christians who dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church and were subsequently persecuted and excommunicated. Because their books were often confiscated and they were forbidden to use printing presses, they continued to write important works such as this one by hand. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament book of Revelation along with a patristic commentary, which is accompanied by a series of seventy-one striking full-page miniatures.

Hand note

Script squared, semi-uncial

Contributors

Cataloger: Kauffman, Nicholas

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

Contributor: Bockrath, Diane

Contributor: Emery, Doug

Contributor: Noel, William

Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel

Contributor: Toth, Michael B.

Conservator: Quandt, Abigail

Bibliography

Cleminson, Ralph. A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections. London, 1988 (see discussion of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Ms. 7-1972, comparable to W.917 in date and composition)


These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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Keywords
Bible
Russian
Russia
19th century
Scripture
Christian
Miniature
Original binding
Treatise
18th century

Origin Place

Russia

Date

Ca. 1800 CE

Form

book

Binding

Original Binding

Binding Description

Leather over wooden boards, with brass clasps and studs; leather stamped with patterns, but heavily worn

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Russian.

Provenance

Russia, ca. 1800, created by Russian "Old Believers"

Unknown owner and date; ownership inscription in purple pencil on front and rear pastedowns and on fol. 1v: "Rukopis [ms] No7"; name written below appears to have been erased

Unknown owner; inscription in green pencil on rear pastedown: "26. x. 34." "C. K. A. L. I. S."

Walters Art Museum, 2005, purchased from Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts

Acquisition

Museum purchase, 2005

← search Apocalypse with patristic commentary W.917

Origin Place

Russia

Date

Ca. 1800 CE

Form

book

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Russian.

Provenance

Russia, ca. 1800, created by Russian "Old Believers"

Unknown owner and date; ownership inscription in purple pencil on front and rear pastedowns and on fol. 1v: "Rukopis [ms] No7"; name written below appears to have been erased

Unknown owner; inscription in green pencil on rear pastedown: "26. x. 34." "C. K. A. L. I. S."

Walters Art Museum, 2005, purchased from Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts

Acquisition

Museum purchase, 2005

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

This manuscript was made around 1800 by the “Old Believers,” a group of Russian Christians who dissented from the Russian Orthodox Church and were subsequently persecuted and excommunicated. Because their books were often confiscated and they were forbidden to use printing presses, they continued to write important works such as this one by hand. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament book of Revelation along with a patristic commentary, which is accompanied by a series of seventy-one striking full-page miniatures.

Hand note

Script squared, semi-uncial

References

Contributors

Cataloger: Kauffman, Nicholas

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Copy editor: Dibble, Charles

Contributor: Bockrath, Diane

Contributor: Emery, Doug

Contributor: Noel, William

Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel

Contributor: Toth, Michael B.

Conservator: Quandt, Abigail

Bibliography

Cleminson, Ralph. A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections. London, 1988 (see discussion of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Ms. 7-1972, comparable to W.917 in date and composition)


Bindings & Oddities

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Upper board outside

Lower board outside

Spine

Fore-edge

Head

Tail

Keywords
Bible
Russian
Russia
19th century
Scripture
Christian
Miniature
Original binding
Treatise
18th century
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