n Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse

By (author) Francis X. Gumerlock

Book cover: n Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse

Extent: 185 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Brepols Library of Christian Sources

Series volume number: 14

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2025)

ISBN: 9782503617886

Price: $82.00

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This Anonymous Irish Gloss on the Apocalypse, previously regarded as a “lost commentary” is reconstructed and translated here for the first time.


About 700 AD an anonymous Irish teacher, working in a monastic setting, wrote this gloss on the Apocalypse. Reconstructed from three early medieval commentaries which made use of it, the gloss shows how this early Irish Christian, influenced by the fourth-century Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius of Carthage, interpreted the Book of Revelation. The Latin text with interfacing English translation depicts how the author understood the 144,000 sealed, the beast, the two witnesses, 666, the Battle of Armageddon, the millennium, the New Jerusalem, and other visions of the Book of Revelation.

  • By (author) Francis X. Gumerlock