Then owned by Basil Fielding (b. c. 1608 d. 1675), Earl of Denbigh: his armorial bookplate, dated 1703 on fol.

These manuscripts can be divided by the language and form of the Apocalypse text.

Paul Meyer and Léopold Delisle, in their book L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Paris MS fr.

403), 2 vols., Paris, 1901,[1] were the first scholars to try to list, describe and categorize the Apocalypse manuscripts.

[2] Since M. R. James' work, there have been a number of more recent studies by R. Freyhan, George Henderson, Peter Klein, Suzanne Lewis, Nigel Morgan and Lucy Sandler.