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The Saint-Sever Beatus
Características
Ubicación actual:
© Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Ms. Lat. 8878. 11th Century. Ca. 1038.
Escritura:
Latin. Carolingian minuscule.
Ilustraciones:
112 miniatures illuminated in gold and more than 1,400 colour initials.
Extensión:
Complete facsimile. 592 parchment pages.
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The only complete fine facsimile edition in real size with gold leaf and mutilations on its folios
The only fine facsimile edition of all the editions of Beatus with real fine gold on its binding
• The masterpiece of the European Romanesque.
• The only Beatus manuscript that inspired Picasso.
• The most lavish, ground-breaking and artistically significant of all the Beatus codices.
• Contains the only complete text of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, dating from 776.
• A work of extraordinary importance is the only way to characterize the Saint-Sever Beatus (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. lat. 8878), and all the superlatives it has accumulated scarcely do justice to its beauty. Certainly it is the most lavishly illustrated, original and artistically significant of all the known Beatus manuscripts, as well as providing the most complete text of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. The Saint-Sever Beatus was illustrated by Stephanus Garsia and other hands by order of Gregorio Muntaner, abbot of Saint-Sever, (1028-1072) an important monastery located in Gascony along the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela. It is the only Beatus manuscript originating outside the Iberian peninsula, but it follows the Spanish tradition in its illustrations. Its great point of artistic interest is the way in which the illuminators have made use of the iconographic conventions employed in the first edition of the Beatus and combined them with imagery from the third, the most lavishly illustrated edition of them all, while at the same time incorporating other motifs from what is probably a non-Hispanic illustrated Apocalypse.
• Accordingly, this is the only Beatus that has drawn on three different models for its illustrations. Above all, one cannot help but be astonished by the artistic and intellectual sophistication of the miniatures, which are both extraordinarily faithful to their Biblical sources, while at the same time exhibiting a prodigious naturalism and quasi-modern expressionism. This is the only Beatus with a double-page “Maiestas Domini” equal in monumental scope to any of the great Romanesque carved portals in France. It is for that reason art historians have speculated that the manuscript was illuminated by a group of itinerant professional artists who had previous experience as mural painters. Taken as a whole, the images of the Saint-Sever Beatus are one of the masterpieces of medieval miniature painting. It is no wonder, then, that in Picasso’s famous painting, Guernica, the figure of the fallen soldier is inspired by the huge figure of a drowned corpse in the illustration of the Great Flood in the Saint-Sever Beatus. P.K.Klein.
• First and only complete fine facsimile edition in real size with gold leaf and pergamenata paper.
• The only fine facsimile edition of all the editions of Beatus with real fine gold on its binding.
• Partial damage and irregularities at the edge of each folio have been scrupulously replicated; images and textual matter have been reproduced with total fidelity and maximum attention to capturing the exact colour tones, sharpness and detail of the original.
• Accept no substitutes and rely on the notarized certificate of authenticity that attests to our commitment to quality.
• Pergamenata Series. First and unique complete fine facsimile edition with pergamenata paper and gold leaf with similar characteristics to the one used by the most prestigious publishing houses specialized in facsimiles or quasi-originals of illuminated manuscripts on paper, pergamenata or natural lambskin parchment. Edition limited to 600 single copies numbered and individually authenticated by notary public.
• Gold Series. 66 single copies with authentic 22,25-carat pure fine gold leaf and pergamenata paper. We add something extra and unique to our publication, something that makes us different from the rest of publishers. For the first time ever, the illustrations for the Beatus of Liébana will be illuminated the way its creators meant it to be, by the liberal application of fine gold leaf on each and every one of its pages. It will be accompanied by a notarized laboratory analysis confirming that 22.25 carat gold has been used throughout to faithfully recreate the splendor of the original.
• Last copies.
• Commentary volume by the prestigious Professor Peter K. Klein and Professor Otto. K. Werckmeister.
