Facsimile Beatus of Liébana. Codex of Gerona.

"Beato de Liébana. Codex of Gerona".
Madrid: Editora Internacional de Libros Antiguos, 1975.
Facsimile edition, copy 2064/3000.
Leather binding with gilt.
Measurements: 41 x 27,5 cm.
Facsimile edition of the Codex of Gerona made by the International Publishers of Antiquarian Books in collaboration with the Cathedral of Gerona.
Beato de Liébana was an 8th century Mozarabic monk from the Monastery of San Martín de Turieno (nowadays 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 tenth and eleventh centuries, illustrator, where the Apocalypse of St. John and the "Commentaries" on this text written in the eighth century by Beato de Liébana himself are copied.