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Commentary on the Apocalypse and commentary on the Book of Daniel.

Accession number
MS M.429
Object title
Commentary on the Apocalypse and commentary on the Book of Daniel.
Created
Spain, perhaps Toledo, 1220.
Binding
Spanish 17th-century red velvet over heavy boards; silver bosses and corner pieces; in the center a single-headed silver eagle.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
184 leaves (2 columns, 46 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 520 x 370 mm
Provenance
Executed in Spain in 1220 for an unknown patroness; studied by the church historian Enrique Flórez (1702-1773) at the Monasterio de Las Huelgas de Burgos, Spain, in 1770; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Lionel Harris in London in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Spain, perhaps in Toledo, and dated on fol. 184 the year 1258 of the Spanish Era (i.e., 1220).
Texts: Saint Beatus, Presbyter of Liebana, Commentary on the Apocalypse (fol. 1-149 verso); Saint Jerome, Commentariorum on the Book of Daniel (fol. 150-182v).
The manuscript was copied from the Tábara Beatus, which was written in 970 by the scribe Emeterius (Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Cod. 1097 B)--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 46 full-page and 71 smaller miniatures.
Artist: attributed to the main artist responsible for the decoration of the Liber feudorum maius (Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, MS Can. Reg. 1)--Cf. Załuska.
Manuscript contains sewn repair.
Script
late Caroline minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification