Blessed Ferdinand and Sancha

Facsimile of the "Beato de Fernando y Sancha", Ms. Vitr. 14-2, Biblioteca Nacional de España.
Editorial Club Bibliófilo Versol
Includes 640 pages, with 98 miniatures, 9 of them double-page.
Unique print run of 940 numbered copies certified by notarial act, copy 366.
Includes study book with texts, paleographic analysis, commentaries and miniatures.
Original dust jacket.
With wear marks.
Measurements: 38 x 28,5 x 9 cm.

Beato de Liébana, probably a Mozarabic monk from the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana, in Cantabria, Spain, in the foothills of the Picos de Europa, wrote some commentaries to the text of the Apocalypse that would become one of the most copied and disseminated works in monasteries and European courts throughout the High Middle Ages. Many of the codices containing the text of Beatus of Liébana were also enriched with splendid miniatures that constitute some of the best (and best preserved) examples of Romanesque pictorial art. The present facsimile reproduces in exquisite detail an important manuscript, copied by a certain Facundo ("Facundus scripsit", we read in the colophon, on folio 317), probably a monk of Sahagún, which was the property of the kings Fernando I and Sancha, as shown by an inscription on folio 7r, where we read "Ferdinandus rex de igra mra L y Sancia Regina mra liber". Another inscription on folio 316r indicates the exact date when the manuscript was made, the year 1047 (Era bis quadragies et V post millesima).