Apocalipsis
Publisher: Scriptorium
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Valencia
Language: lat; spa; eng
Translated from: lat
ISBN-13: 9788489472143; 9788489472150; 9788489472167; 9788489472174
Subjects: Illustrations; Commentaries; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Spanish Illumination of books and manuscripts; Mozarabic Illumination of books and manuscripts; Ashburnham-Morgan Beatus (Manuscript); Bible; In Apocalipsin (Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana)
Other titles: Commentaries, Beatus of Liebana.
Work titles: In Apocalipsin
Notes: Title on commentary cover : Commentaries, Beatus of Liebana.

Full-color facsimile of ms. written (in Visigothic miniscule) and illuminated by Maius between 940 and 945, perhaps in Tábara, for Abbot Victor of the Monastery of San Miguel de Escalada; now M.644 in the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Title from cover (volume 1).

Includes Beatus, Presbyter of Liebana, In Apocalipsin (fol. 1-233); Isidore of Seville, De adfinitatibus et gradibus (fol. 234-237); St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (fol. 238v-292v); an anonymous discussion of the Apocalypse and comments on Beatus's work (fol. 294-299).

Includes the first English-language translation of Beatus of Liebana's commentary on the Book of Revelation.

Edition limited to 490 copies.

Text in Latin, commentary in English.

Library owns number 161 of 490 copies.
Table of contents: title: Commentary volume:; title: Provenance of the manuscript  -- William M. Voelkle; title: Introduction to the text of the Codex of San Miguel de Escalada  -- Joaquín González Echegaray, Alberto del Campo Hernández, Leslie G. Freeman; title: Commentaries on the Apocalypse of the Blessed Apostle John  -- English translation by L.G. Freeman; title: Introduction, Commentaries of the illumination  -- John Williams; title: Maius and the scriptorium of Tábara -- Barbara Shailor.