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Beatus de Saint-Sever, Vision of the Son of Man. Paris, BNF, Ms. Lat. 8878, fols. 121v-122r
The Saint-Sever Beatus , also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878), is a
Romanesque
Illuminated manuscript from the 11th century.
[1]
[2] The manuscript was made at
Saint-Sever Abbey , then in the
Duchy of Gascony , under the direction of Gregory of Montaner, abbot between 1028 and 1072. It is believed that the primary artist-scribe who illustrated the manuscript was Stephanus Garsia (who signed his name on folio 6), working alongside other unnamed individuals.
[3]
The manuscript contains the
Commentary on the Apocalypse of
Beatus of Liébana , a commentary on
Daniel by Saint
Jerome and a treatise on the
Virgin Mary by Saint
Ildefonsus .
[4]
[5] Parts of it are displayed in the
Musée des Jacobins in Saint-Sever.
Gallery
Frontispiece of the Beatus
Decorated initial
Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Angel transmitting the revelation of the apocalypse to
John
Rain of fire and blood
Bird victorious over the serpent
Angel throwing a dragon into the abyss
References
^ Sáenz, Sandra; Pérez, López (2016),
"The Image of France in the Beatus Map of Saint-Sever*" , Space in the Medieval West ,
doi :
10.4324/9781315610115 ,
ISBN
978-1-315-61011-5 , retrieved 2023-03-02
^ Lewis, Suzanne (2003).
"Review of The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, 3: The Tenth and Eleventh Centuries" . Speculum . 78 (3): 1014–1016.
doi :
10.1017/S0038713400132506 .
ISSN
0038-7134 .
JSTOR
20060885 .
^ Wolfe, Shiela Pugh (1972).
Christus Traditor: The Traditiones on the Evangelist Pages of the Beatus of St. Sever . Ohio State University.
^ Duzer, Chet Van; Dines, Ilya (2016-01-01).
1 Description of Huntington HM 83 . Brill.
ISBN
978-90-04-30727-8 .
^ Lecaque, Thomas (2017-01-01).
5 Reading Raymond: The Bible of Le Puy, the Cathedral Library and the Literary Background of the Liber of Raymond of Aguilers . Brill.
ISBN
978-90-04-34121-0 .
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