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Beatus of Liebana codex of San Pedro de Cardena, c. 1180

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Facsimile of the original manuscript format: 30 x 44.5 cm. 290 pages, 51 thumbnails enriched gold. Made between 1175 and 1185, in the important scriptorium of the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardena.

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Facsimile of the original codex, 33 x 47.5 cm. 290 pages, 51 gold-enriched miniatures. Produced between 1175 and 1185 in the important scriptorium of the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. Its folios are distributed between the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (127 ff.), the Francisco de Zabálburu y Basabe Library, Madrid (2 ff.), the Diocesan Museum of Girona (1 f.), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (15 ff.). Bound in suede with fittings on both sides, presented in a large leather-bound case, 38 x 52.5 x 12 cm. Accompanied by a bilingual Spanish-English study book, hardback with an illustrated dust jacket, 25.5 x 34 cm. 368 pages with full-color illustrations.

First and only facsimile edition containing all the scattered fragments of this manuscript, limited and notarized.

Blessed of Liebana of San Pedro de Cardeña is one of the most sumptuous, most artistically elaborated and of the highest quality of those of his series (Family II, branch B).

Full copy and in perfect condition.

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