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Subject(s)

• Bible—Manuscripts—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Spain—Leon (Kingdom)—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Visigothic—Spain—Leon (Kingdom). [Browse]

Related name

• Viñayo González, Antonio [Browse]
• Real Colegiata de San Isidoro (León, Spain). Archivo Capitular [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Notes

• Title from colophon. (Statement of publisher affixed to rear pastedown).
• Facsimile reproduction of the Visigothic Mozarabic Bible produced in the Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul at Valeranica (960 A.D.) and preserved in the Archivo Capitular of the Real Colegiata de San Isidoro in Leon, Spain.
• Consejo de Edición: D. Antonio Viñayo González and others.
• Lowercase visigothic-mozarabic lettering with initial capital letters in the interlaced Saxon style and decorated with Biblical scenes and roundels. Text in Latin with marginal annotations in Latin and Arabic. Foliated 1-516.
• The copyist (identified as Florencio), and the calligrapher (identified as Sancho) are depicted in the manuscript colophon.
• Edition limited to 600 copies.
• SAX copy: Number 223, signed and stamped.

Binding note

Full leather binding, blind stamped decorated boards, silver bosses and clasp. Issued in wooden case.

ISBN

• 8474970032 :
• 9788474970036 :

OCLC

1340683385

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