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

3.900,00

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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ISBN: 9788488526663 Category:
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Facsimile of the original codex format: 30 x 44.5 cm. 290 pages, 51 miniatures enriched with gold. Made between 1175 and 1185, in the important scriptorium of the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. Its folios are distributed in 4 important public and private institutions: the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (most of the codex with 127 folios), the Francisco de Zabálburu y Basabe Library, Madrid (2 folios), the Diocesan Museum of Girona ( 1 folio), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (15 folios). Bound in steely skin, with leather case and study book (368 pages). The only facsimile edition that includes all the scattered fragments found in 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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