The term beatus identifies a particular medieval manuscript, generally of spanish origin, that contains a collection of textual comments on the apocalypse of saint john. I thought the progressions and the jazz chords were so beautiful that i decided to make a quick video on moving these to guitar. Beatus of liebana escorial codex facsimile edition. While having a cup of coffee this morning i was watching a video from rick beato on 4 jazz chord progressions that works well for jazz. The beatus of liebana saintsever codex is counted among the highlights of 11th century french illumination and is one of the alltime most grandiose works of illumination. There are different kinds of general studieseither in the form of a survey and study of the preserved manuscripts, as discussed in neuss 1931, williams 19942003, and yarza luaces 1998. The 112 miniatures, some of them even doublepage, and the over 1,400 colored initials of the nearly 600page text are amazing. The valcavado beatus is among the 32 copies that still exist today of this work, many of them lavishly illuminated. This page was last edited on 6 october 2019, at 22. Apocalypse eommentary by the spanish monk beatus of liebana, a text which. Pdf e s t u d i o c r i t i c o b e a t o d e l i e b a n a p e d r o a n g e l f e r n a n d e z v e g a b i b l i o t e c a v.
It may have been the work of one or both of two wellknown miniaturists, florencio and sancho. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. It is more classical in appearance than the other tenthcentury beatus manuscripts and it attempts. Apocalypse, the work by beatus of liebana, housed in the gerona cathedral museum was created between 970 and 975 by the female painter en the ordinatora of the manuscript, i. Sancti beati presbyteri hispani liebanensis in apocalypsin ac plurimas.
Camino lebaniego ano jubilar lebaniego cantabria espana. The miniatures in the escorial beatus are a perfect example of. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Technical information on the artwork on the official portal for culture in spain. It is held in the collection of the santa cruz palace. The manuscript by oveco remained there until the 16th century. The beatus of ferdinand and sancha, or, beatus facundus, is an illuminated manuscript containing a commentary on the apocalypse by beatus of liebana. The aim of the author, beato of liebana, was that of indoctrinating and educating the clergy, although, in some cases the manuscript was also used for certain rites and rituals. Illustrated beatus manuscripts medieval studies oxford. He is best remembered today as the author of the commentary on the apocalypse.
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