Beato del Monasterio de Santa Maria la Real de Huelgas de Burgos.

Author
Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798 [Browse]
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Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
Valencia : Scriptorium, c2004.
Description
185 leaves (i.e. [370] p.) : col. ill. ; 55 cm. + 2 commentaries (427 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 31 cm. ; 169 p. ; 31 cm.)

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  • facsimile; commentary 1; commentary 2

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    Notes
    • Full-color facsimile of Morgan Library ms. M.429, written and illuminated in Spain, perhaps in Toledo, and dated on fol. 184 the year 1258 of the Spanish Era (i.e., 1220). Ms. was executed for an unknown patroness, and formerly owned by the Monasterio de Las Huelgas de Burgos.
    • Commentary includes contributions by Peter K. Klein, David Raizman, Alberto del Campo Hernández, Joaquín González Echegaray and L.G. Freeman, with a provenance of the ms. by William M. Voelkle.
    • "A complete English translation of Beatus' commentary In Apocalypsin was provided in the third volume that accompanies the two-volume facsimile edition of the Morgan Beatus (Ms. 644 of the Morgan Library), produced by Editorial Scriptorium"--Commentary, p. 357.
    • Title from cover of Spanish/English commentary.
    • Edition limited to 666 copies.
    Bibliographic references
    Commentaries include bibliographical references.
    Language note
    Commentary includes contributions in Spanish and English versions, including translations of St. Jerome's commentary In Danielem prophetam, and the first English translation of Beatus' commentary on the Apocalypse. The foreword is in Spanish only.
    Spanish/English commentary title
    • Estudio del manuscrito del Beato de Las Huelgas, M.429.
    German commentary title
    • Beatus-kodex aus las Huelgas
    ISBN
    • 8489472246 (facsímil)
    • 9788489472242 (facsímil)
    • 8489472254 (estudio)
    • 9788489472259 (estudio)
    • 8489472262 (obra completa)
    • 9788489472266 (obra completa)
    OCLC
    270992352
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