Germany: Worship before the Throne of God. Illumination from the Bamberg Apocalypse, 1000-1020. The Bamberg Apocalypse is an illuminated manuscript themed around Saint John's Book of Revelation and the Apocalypse, as well as commentaries on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. It is held in the Bamberg State Library, Germany. It was commissioned by Otto III (Holy Roman Emperor, r. 980-1002) and contains 57 gilded miniatures produced in the scriptorium at Reichenau.

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