BEATO DE TURIN: GERONA APOCALYPSE (Facsimile)

This facsimile demonstrates the incredible abilities of technology to reproduce a medieval manuscript with all of the qualities of the original, including its age.
The original manuscript is one of several copies of the commentary on the Book of Revelation written by the monk Beatus of Lièbana, Spain in the 8th century. All of the so-called “Beatus manuscripts” were produced in Spain between the 9th and the 13th centuries. This copy was made for the cathedral at Gerona in the 10th century, a period in which Christians truly believed the end of the world was at hand, as John had predicted, in the year 1000. Christians living in Spain under Ottoman Moslem rule were especially sensitive to the possibility of the Last Judgment and the promise of salvation at Christ’s second coming.