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The Illustrated Beatus. IV. The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

The Illustrated Beatus. IV. The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Harvey Miller Publishers

English Text.
London, 2003; clothbound, pp. 354, 418 numbered b/w ill., 418 numbered b/w plates, cm 23x33,5.
(The Illustrated Beatus. A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse. 4).

series: The Illustrated Beatus

ISBN: 0-905203-94-1 - EAN13: 9780905203942

Subject: Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures),Maps, Documents, Old and Rare Books

Period: 1000-1400 (XII-XIV) Middle Ages

Places: No Place

Extra: Religion Art

Languages: english text  

Weight: 2.4 kg


This volume is the fourth in the series of catalogues that offer full descriptions and complete cycles of illustrations of all extant manuscripts of Beatus' Commentary on the apocalypse. The monk Beatus, othe monastery of Santo Toribio in the valley of Liébana, compiled his commentary on the Book of Revelation in 776 AD, and it has come down to us in thirty two manuscripts and fragments ranging from the ninth to the thirteenth centry. Twenty-six of these extant codices are illuminated with a series of extraordinary illustrations which represent the greatest single tradition of Apocalyptic imagery in the Middle Ages,

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