Apocalipsis.

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Author / Creator:Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798.
Uniform title:In Apocalipsin
Imprint:Valencia : Scriptorium, 2000.
Description:2 volumes : color illustrations ; 39 cm + 1 commentary volumes (645 pages ; 39 cm)
Language:Latin
Spanish
English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy no. "X/LXXV" of a limited edition of 490 copies ; signed by Carlos Pascual de Miguel, Notario del Ilustra Colegio de Valencia ; volumes 1-2 secured with leather ties ; volume 2 issued in slipcase ; lacking commentary volume ; gift of Susan Freeman.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10338896
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Other uniform titles:Maius, active 926-968.
Eco, Umberto.
Voelkle, William M.
González Echegaray, Joaquín.
Campo Hernández, Alberto del
Freeman, Leslie G.
Williams, John, 1928 February 25-
Shailor, Barbara A., 1948-
Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. In Apocalipsin. English.
Beatus, Saint, Presbyter of Liebana, -798. In Apocalipsin. Spanish.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. De adfinitatibus et gradibus.
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. In Danielem.
Other authors / contributors:San Miguel de Escalada (Monastery : León, Spain)
Pierpont Morgan Library.
ISBN:8489472149 (t. I)
9788489472143 (t. I)
8489472157 (t. II)
9788489472150 (t. II)
8489472165 (Estudio)
9788489472167 (Estudio)
8489472173 (Ob. com.)
9788489472174 (Ob. com.)
Notes: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 (v. 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.
Commentary v. Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-645).
Text in Latin, commentary in Spanish and English.
Table of Contents:
  • Commentary v. : Mis Beatos / Umberto Eco
  • Procedencia del manuscrito = Provenance of the manuscript / William M. Voelkle
  • Introducción al texto del Códice de San Miguel de Escalada = Introduction to the text of the Codex of San Miguel de Escalada / Joaquín González Echegaray, Alberto del Campo Hernández, Leslie G. Freeman
  • In Apocalypsin B. Joannis apostoli commentaria = Comentarios al Apocalipsis de San Juan = Commentaries on the Apocalypse of the Blessed Apostle John / English translation by L.G. Freeman ; [Spanish translation by Joaquín González Echegaray and Alberto del Campo Hernández]
  • Introducción al manuscrito. Introducción, comentarios de las miniaturas = Introduction, commentaries of the illumination / John Williams
  • Magio y el scriptorium de Tábara = Maius and the scriptorium of Tábara / Barbara Shailor.