Manuscripts
Michael on the page. Books of hours, psalters and apocalypse cycles, the Très Riches Heures and the Beatus manuscripts, plus the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Hunefer papyrus, where the weighing of souls was already being painted three thousand years earlier.
Part of Saint Michael
23 moments in this segment.
- - Saint-Sever Beatus f. 159r - crop. Folio from the Saint-Sever Beatus, eleventh century, illustrating the Apocalypse in which Michael fights the dragon of Revelation 12.
- - Beatus de Silos BL Add11695 - f147v-148. Page from the Silos Beatus, c. 1091, a Spanish illuminated commentary on the Apocalypse; the Beatus manuscripts are the great medieval visual tradition of Revelation. Slightly under 1000px but a scarce primary manuscript.
- - Armenian icon 2. Armenian illuminated manuscript page of 1261 with an archangel; Armenian Apostolic tradition venerates Michael among the incorporeal powers.
- - Dragon battles woman's offspring - St John sees the beast Wellcome L0029264 crop. Apocalypse manuscript illumination continuing the Revelation 12 sequence after Michael casts down the dragon.
- - Woman tries to save son, Michael battles a dragon Wellcome L0029262. Manuscript illumination of Revelation 12: the woman clothed with the sun and Michael's battle with the dragon.
- - Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1498, NGA 142359. Dürer's Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1498, from the Apocalypse woodcut cycle, National Gallery of Art impression.
- - Houghton Typ Inc 2121A - Dürer, Apocalypse, 37. Page from a 1498 edition of Dürer's Apocalypse showing the Michael woodcut as printed in the book.
- - Saint Michael and the Dragon, from The Apocalypse MET DP816130. Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, woodcut from the Apocalypse series, c. 1498; the most influential printed image of Revelation 12.
- - The Apocalypse 12 Saint Michael fighting the dragon PK-P-127.238. Impression of Dürer's Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon from the Apocalypse series, Rijksmuseum.
- - Apocalypse (BM 1902,0617.20). Sixteenth-century printed Apocalypse illustration of Michael and the dragon, British Museum, 1502.
- - Guillaume Le Rouge - Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome)- fol. 97v, St. Michael the Archangel - 2009.276.97.b. European painting of Saint Michael; digitised artwork, dated to its execution.
- - Ottheinrich Folio295r Rev12. Folio 295r of the Ottheinrich Bible, c. 1530, illustrating Revelation 12 with the archangel and the dragon.
- - Hymnal, Archangel, Walters Manuscript W.547, fol. 218r. Armenian hymnal manuscript, Walters W.547, with an archangel illumination.
- - Book of the Dead of Iuefankh, papyrus - Museo Egizio Turin C 1791 p02 crop. Psychostasis: Michael weighing souls at the Last Judgement, a core motif of Western and Byzantine art.
- - BBC: The Codex Sinaiticus. BBC segment on the fourth-century Greek Bible held at the British Library, the largest surviving book from antiquity and a key witness for the New Testament text.
- - Gospel Book, Weighing of Souls, Walters Manuscript W.540, fol. 15r. Psychostasis: Michael weighing souls at the Last Judgement, a core motif of Western and Byzantine art.
- - The Judgement of Hunefer: Weighing the Heart. Smarthistory reads the c. 1275 BCE Book of the Dead papyrus in the British Museum, the Egyptian weighing-of-the-heart scene that anticipates Michael's psychostasis.
- - Miniatures in Syriac Manuscripts. HMML curator David Calabro examines miniature painting in a Syriac manuscript, a tradition in which archangels appear alongside evangelist portraits.
- - Duerer's Apocalypse of 1498. Queensland Art Gallery on Albrecht Duerer's woodcut Apocalypse series, which includes the celebrated Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon.
- - Understanding Books of Hours. Manuscript specialist Sandra Hindman explains the structure, illumination and iconography of medieval Books of Hours.
- - An Armenian Menologium and Its Images. Armenian art specialist Whitney Kite lectures at the Library of Congress on an illuminated Armenian menologium and its iconography.
- - What a Book of Hours Is. The Barber Institute explains the Book of Hours, the illuminated format in which most laypeople encountered images of angels and the Last Judgement.
- - Manuscript Spotlight: Codex Sinaiticus. Greg Lanier walks through the history and layout of the fourth-century pandect Bible, with case studies in the Psalter and Greek Old Testament.