The Gerona Beatus Codex, Spain, 975AD
Girona Cathedral, Catalonia


Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Horseman Fighting a Dragon

An Angel Attacks Locusts



The woman garbed by the sun and the dragon




Kings Mourning Babylon



The Beast and the False Prophet



Jerusalem Besieged



The Gerona Beatus is a 10th-century illuminated manuscript in the museum of Girona Cathedral, Catalonia, Spain.

The manuscript contains two separate works: the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, a late eighth-century work popular in medieval Spain and Jerome's commentary on the Book of Daniel.
It includes 284 extant folios, each measuring 400 mm by 260 mm, copiously illustrated with 184 surviving miniatures, and has been described as "one of the most richly decorated of the Beatus Commentaries, and one of the best documented."

History
From inscriptions at the conclusion of the text, it is clear that the manuscript was commissioned by an Abbot Dominicus, and was completed on July 6, 975, most probably at the monastery at Tábara.
The scribe is identified as Presbyter Senior, and, unusually, the names of its two illuminators are included: Ende pintrix et dei aiutrix - 'Ende, woman painter and servant of God' and 'Emeterius, monk and presbyter.
Source: wikipedia



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