the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse

‘Et ecce equus pallidus: et qui sedebat super eum, nomen illi Mors, et infernus sequebatur eum’ (Revelation 6:8 ‘And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him’ - I know the horse isn’t pale enough…)

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Silos Apocalypse’), Santo Domingo de Silos 1091-1109.

British Library, Add. 11695, fol. 102v

false prophets 
(Revelation 16:13)

‘Queen Mary Apocalypse’, London 14th century.

British Library, Royal MS 19 B XV, fol. 30v

Abaddon and the locusts

Revelation 9:7-11 ‘And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.’

‘Queen Mary Apocalypse’, London 14th century.

British Library, Royal MS 19 B XV, fol. 15v

false prophet

Revelation 16:13 ‘And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet’ (‘Et vidi de ore draconis, et de ore bestiæ, et de ore pseudoprophetæ spiritus tres immundos in modum ranarum’)

Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Silos Apocalypse’), Santo Domingo de Silos 1091-1109.

British Library, Additional 11695, fol. 178v

Christ on Majesty flanked by two angels blowing trumpets of the Last Judgement and… a little grey guy licking its butt =^_^=

Missal, Bavaria ca. 1440-1460.

New York Public Library, MA 112, fol. 7r

devil’s wheel 2

Apocalypse, France 1220-1270.

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 59v

beast

Apocalypse, France 1220-1270.

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 29v

infernal brawl

Apocalypse, France 1220-1270.

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 60v

dance on the dead prophets

Rev 11,8-10

And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord also was crucified. And they of the tribes and peoples and tongues and nations shall see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer their bodies to be laid in sepulchres. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

Apocalypse, France 1220-1270.

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, Ms 815, fol. 22v

Whore of Babylon

Biblia Porta, France 13th century.

Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 482r

INNOCENTS 

‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’, Normandy ca. 1330.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters, MS 68.174, fol. 2v

RIDER ON A PALE HORSE

Apocalypse (The ‘Queen Mary Apocalypse’), England 14th century.

BL, Royal 19 B XV, fol. 10v

VARIATIONS SUR LE NYAN CAT

Bodleian, MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 11, fol. 59v

Genesis 9,12: And God said, This is the token of the Couenant which I make betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations. I doe set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a couenant, betweene me and the earth. And it shall come to passe, when I bring a cloud ouer the earth, that the bow shall be seene in the cloud. And I will remember my couenant, which is betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shalbe in the cloud; and I will looke vpon it, that I may remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God and euery liuing creature, of all flesh that is vpon the earth.

BL, Royal 15 D II, fol. 152

Revelation 12,1: And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne, & the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres.

DIABOLUS SEDENS SUPER BEEMOTH

Lambert of Saint-Omer, Liber Floridus. Marchiennes (?), ca. 1150-1170.

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1 Gud. lat., fol. 41v