The original manuscript was produced around 1320-30, most likely in Normandy. It includes the Apocalypse text (in both Latin and French) beneath large and refined half-page miniatures. The manuscript belonged to the collection of the Val-Dieu Charterhouse library in the 17th century. The first folio bears the inscription Ex Libris Cartusiae Vallis Dei. It was purchased by the British Museum on the 6th May 1848 from Thomas Rodd - an English librarian, antiquarian and Hispanist.