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Apocalypse.

Accession number
MS S.18
Object title
Apocalypse.
Display Date
ca. 1901-1907
Created
Russia, ca. 1901-1907
Binding
20th-century stamped calf over heavy boards.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
280 leaves (1 column, 26 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 348 x 213 mm
Provenance
No. 4064 in a previous collection (round label inside front cover, inscribed in black ink); E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. apocalypse, written and illuminated in Russia, ca.1901-1907.
Decoration: 71 full-page miniatures executed in watercolor, liquid gold, and colored inks, 1 historiated headpiece, 71 calligraphic headpieces with vegetal motifs and 71 large calligraphic initials.
Each folio of paper has a blind stamp of the Riga paper company, corresponding to paper produced there from 1901-1907; see Sokrat Klepikov, Filigrani ischtempeli na bumage russkogo I inostrannogo proizvodstva XVII-XX veka -Watermarks and stamps on the paper of Russian and foreign production of the XVII-XX centuries - Moscow, 1959, p. 100, no. 1
Script
cyrillic
Language
Old Slavonic
Century
Classification