Beato de Liébana of San Miguel de Escalada.

Beato de Liébana de San Miguel de Escalada.
International Book Club, 2005.
Facsimile edition. Copy 390/1380.
Gold stamped quilted leather binding, with velvet lined box.
Measurements: 41 x 32 x 8 cm (velvet box).
Facsimile edition of manuscript 664 from the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. History of the codex and study of the miniatures by John Williams, introduction by William M. Voelkle and epilogue by Umberto Eco.
Beato de Liébana was an 8th century Mozarabic monk from the Monastery of San Martín de Turieno (present-day Monastery of Santo Toribio in Liébana) in Cantabria, author of the "Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John", his most famous work and of great diffusion in the High Middle Ages. Also his are the "Apologeticum adversus Elipandum" and, possibly, the hymn "O Dei Verbum "Another work attributed to the Blessed without certainty, preserved in a fragmentary manuscript of the 10th century in Santillana del Mar, is a "Liber Homiliarum" of liturgical use, following the Mozarabic calendar. From his figure derives the denomination of "beatos" with which are known the manuscripts of the X and XI centuries, illustrator, where the Apocalypse of St. John and the "Commentaries" on this text written in the VIII century by Beato de Liébana himself are copied.