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f.1A, Double arch
f. 1B, Oviedo cross
f. 9r, Angels with Matthew’s gospel
f. 9v, St Mark the Evangelist enthroned and a standing witness
f. 2A, Genealogy of Sem
f. 3r, Genealogy of Abraham
f. 2C, Annunciation/Epiphany
f. 3A, God gives the book to the angel, who then gives it to John
f. 42r, The message to the Church of Ephesus
f. 44v, The message to the Church of Smyrna
f. 48v, The message to the Church of Pergamum
f. 51v, The message to the Church of Thyatira
f. 4A, The message to the Church of Sardis
f. 5A, The message to the Church of Philadelphia
f. 63r, The message to the Church of Laodicea
f. 8A, The angel with the first trumpet
f. 10A, The angel with the fifth trumpet
f. 96r, The angel with the second trumpet: the burning mountain is cast into the sea
f. 96v, The angel with third trumpet: the great, burning star
f. 9B, The angel with the fourth trumpet: the eclipse
f. 11B, The angel with the sext trumpet: the angels of the river Euphrates
f. 106r, The Antichrist kills the two witnesses
f. 13B, Tables of the Antichrist
Cardeña Beatus
"Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited to 987 numbered and authenticated copies"
Codex of the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña
f. 2A, Genealogy of Sem
The genealogical tables begin with Adam and Eve following original sin and end with the Incarnation. They are laid out on fourteen pages with six hundred names organised as a family tree in the form of a chain linking the corresponding circles. In combination with the most important ancestors i.e. Adam, Noah, Abraham and David, the storia is divided up into four ages, and the illustration ends abruptly with the Adoration of the Magi. The origin of the tables however is not very clear. Ayuso Marazuela believes that the idea was taken perhaps from the North African Liber Genealogus by Donate dated 427, although Computatio dated c. 452 and related to Historiarum by Paulus Orosius, does not differ greatly from its canons. The first proposal would be supported by the possibility of its having been incorporated into the text by Tyconius, one of the ones used most frequently by Beatus, in which case it would be a direct illustrated source. However, the source of inspiration would apparently have had to be a Bible, the León Bible of 960 to be precise, since this is where it appears for the first time. Such genealogies are furthermore commonplace in Bibles. It would seem to be an addition to branch II codices that persisted until later codices as occurred in the codex under study. Most of the illustrations in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional Beatus were inspired by the Gerona Beatus, as can be seen throughout the codex. In the manuscript under study, the genealogy of Rachel is summarised as occurs in its model, the Gerona Beatus (current day folio 13r), but not in the Fernando I Beatus (fol. 15r). The faithful reproduction of the Gerona Beatus has enabled the missing folios to be reconstructed. Gold predominates once again on arches, annulets and the cymatia of capitals, all of which and the bases too, are decorated with curly-edged leaves. The horizontal lines that delimit the top of the folios, serve to hold the circles hanging from them in place. They are finished off by the ubiquitous plant motif, always drawn in the same way. Here, the patriarch is not portrayed; the decoration consists merely of horseshoe arches forming the different parts of the letter omega. Their horizontal elements are mounted on columns with plant motif capitals and bases.
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