The Illustrated Beatus: The Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Tapa dura - 1998

Harvey Miller, 1998. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Some shelfwear.

Turnhout Brepols 2000. Hardback, 319 p., incl. 480 ills., 235 x 335 mm. ISBN 9780905203935. This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000, discussing the location of production, the work of the outstanding - and often identifiable - illuminators and scribes, as well as the codicology. This third volume of the Corpus deals in detail with six manuscripts from the period around the year 1000: the Urgell Beatus; the San Millan Beatus in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, which through unfinished, preserves the style of Castile and Leon in the significant period of the first millenium; the Escorial Beatus, notable for its heavy opulent frames; the Facundus Beatus, Madrid, named after the scribe and perhaps master of the Fernando and Queen Sancha of Castile; the Fanlo Beatus in New York, which survives in only few pages copied in the seventeeth century by Lastanosa, as he himself attested; and the exceptionally beautiful San Server Beatus… Leer más

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In overall good condition, no pages missing. Shipping can take between 2-6weeks for international deliveries. Hardback copies may or may not have dust jackets, please get in contact for more information.

London: Harvey Miller, 1998. hardcover. fine/fine. 5 volumes. Profusely illustrated in black & white, with a handful in color. Tall 4tos, forest green cloth, d.w. (London): Harvey Miller, ((1998). A fine scarce set.<br/><br/> Volume I: Introduction. Volume II: The 9th and 10th Century. Volume III: The 10th and 11th Centuries. Volume IV: The 11th and 12th Centuries. Volume V: The 12th and 13th Centuries.<br/><br/>