page_title: Cloisters Apocalypse
section_title: Style and attribution
hierarchical_section_title: Cloisters Apocalypse / Style and attribution
context_page_description: The Cloisters Apocalypse, MS 68.174 is a small French illuminated manuscript dated c. 1330. It is based on John the Evangelist's New Testament visions and apocalyptic revelation. According to Christian legend John was exiled c. 95AD to the Aegean island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. The book evokes John's despair and isolation while exiled, and his prophecy of events and terrors of the last days.
  The manuscript was probably influenced by the c 776 writings of the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, who contextualised the writings of Saint John into an early medieval context. Today it is in the collection of The Cloisters, in New York.
context_section_description: In form and style, the manuscript resembles two other books created in Normandy c1320-1330; "Apocalypse (Revelation)" (MS 17333) in the British Library , and the "Apocalypse of Saint-Victor" (MS lat. 14410) in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.  All three were produced on the continent, but based on late 13th century English sources, probably another manuscript, possibly "The Lambeth Apocalypse" (MS 209) at the Lambeth Palace Library in London, which contains a number of details closely resembling those in the "Cloisters Apocalypse", which is thought to be the common source for all three. 
  The Cloisters book differs from the others in the group in one important aspect; it begins with a preliminary cycle from the childhood of Jesus.
caption: Annunciation and Visitation, folio 1r
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