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Girona Beatus, fol. 134v

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Manuscript Information

Title of manuscript: Girona Beatus, fol. 134v
MS call number (and folio selected): Girona Cathedral Museum, Num. Inv. 7(11)
Current location: Catalonia, Spain
Place of creation: Most likely a monastery in Tabara, Spain
Date of creation: July 6, 975

Codicology and Paleography

Language(s) of text: Latin
Script: Visigothic script, incorporating Arabic script
Abbreviations: None
Textual corrections
            Contemporary: None
            Later: None
Marginal commentary
            Contemporary: None
            Later: None
Rubrication: 3-line rubrication placed at the top, following the interlace initial.
Instructions for scribe: None
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: None

Provenance

Marks of ownership:
Previous owners:
The kingdom of Leon, probably the scriptorium at the Tabara monastery or in one of the centres dependent on it.

The manuscript was commissioned by Abbot Domingo: Dominicus Abba liber fieri precepit. Unfortunately it is not known where he served as an abbot.

The main scribe is a monk called Senior, Senior scripsit, possibly with the collaboration of frater Emeterius et presbiter. Graphemes appearing throughout the manuscript suggests a hand other than that of Senior.

The minatures are by En depintrix et Dei adiutreix, frater emeterius et presbiter.

The Girona Beatus once belonged to precentor Juan who bequeathed a Santa Maria... et bibliothecam I (Biblia) et charules III et passionarios II et librum expositionis apocalpisn..., as recorded in his will dated October 6th, 1078.

Mise en page

Columns: 2
Lines per column: 38 lines per column
 

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: None
Small ink initials: None
Pen flourished initials: Slight pen flourished details around the 4-line interlace initial.
Interlace initials: 4-line blue initial with yellow interlace and small black ink pen flourishes in column a. 
Painted initials: None
Gold initials: None
Foliate initials: None
Zoomorphic initials: None
Anthropomorphic initials: None
Historiated initials: None
Miniatures: The Islamic rider defeating the snake. 
Marginal Illustrations: None
Full page illustration: None

Other Information

 

Further readings

Beatus, et al. Codice de Girona. Barcelona: M Moleiro, Editor, S.A, 2003. Print.

O.K. Werckmeister, "The Islamic Rider in the Beatus of Girona," Gesta 36, no. 2 (1997): 101-106.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/767231. Accessed 20 February 2018.

Williams, John, and Beatus. The illustrated Beatus: a corpus of the illustrations of the commentary on the Apocalypse. London Langhorne, PA, U.S.A: Harvey Miller Publishers International Publishers Distributor, 1991. Print.

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