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The Bamberg Apocalypse is an 11th century richly illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelations and a Gospel Lectionary. It was created in the scriptorium at Reichenau between 1000 and 1020. (Wikipedia)
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The Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878) is a French Romanesque illuminated Apocalypse manuscript from the 11th Century. It was made at the Abbey of St. Sever in about 1050. It contains the commentary of Beatus of Liébana on the Book of Revelations.
The Hitda Codex, an eleventh-century codex containing an evangeliary, a selection of passages from the Gospels, that was commissioned by Hitda, abbess of Meschede about 1020, is conserved in the Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt, Germany. Its illuminations are highlights of the Cologne school in the later phases of the Ottonian Renaissance. - Wikipedia
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