# Douce Apocalypse [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Douce 180\), 311 x 203 mm ## Commentary Douce Apocalypse c. 1272 Manuscript \(Ms. Douce 180\), 311 x 203 mm Bodleian Library, Oxford The influence of the new style found in the books of Louis IX shortly reached England. Henry III, while he commissioned a great many paintings for his palaces and chapels was not a bibliophile. Almost all the painting on a larger scale has vanished and we do not, by way of compensation, possess a nucleus of royal manuscript such as is found in France. Two works survive, however, which, although not commissioned for Henry III, may nevertheless come within this category. One is known as the Douce Apocalypse, the other is the Alfonso Psalter. The Douce Apocalypse, one of an extraordinary number of Apocalypse manuscripts produced during the thirteenth century, was made for Henry III's son, Edward, at some date before his accession to the throne in 1272. It is named from a 19th-century owner. The delicate postures of the figures and the stylised facial types indicate that this is an English version of the style of the French court under Louis IX. The miniature on folio 21r shows the revealed Lord God Almighty on his throne, and at his feet the Lamb with the book sealed with seven seals. At the right are the seven trumpeting angels, awaiting the moment when the seventh seal shall be opened and the horrors unleashed. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()