Illustrated Beatus v 3

Around the year 776, Beatus of Liebana compiled a commentary on the "Apocalypse", which has come down to us in 32 manuscripts and fragments, spanning the 9th to the 13th century. This is the third of five volumes, and deals in detail with six illuminated Beatus manuscripts from the period around 1000, the Romanesque period. This group of manuscripts includes the "Urgell Beatus", the unfinished "San Millan Beatus", the "Escorial Beatus", the "Facundus Beatus", the "Fanlo Beatus" and the "San Sever Beatus". All the illustrations in these manuscripts are reproduced in the book and all the inscriptions transcribed to provide a rich visual conspectus. Each catalogue entry discusses the location of production, the work of the illuminators and scribes and the codicology. The book also examines the currents of influence which find expression in these manuscripts - the pictorial vocabularies of the Mozarabic, Islamic and Carolingian worlds - and relates each manuscript to the systems of Branches into which these works were set by earlier scholars.