Ashburnham Pentateuch
The Origins of the Iconography of the Beatus of Liébana

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Current owner:
© Bibliothèque Nationale de France. 5th century. Ca. 427.

Extent:
290 parchment pages.

Language:
Latin.

Format:
37,5 x 32,5 cm.

Illustrations:
19 full page miniatures, 11 splendid canon tables and initials.

• Conserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France [Ms. Nouv. acq. lat. 2334].

• The most important codex of the Western Middle Ages.

• Known as the Tours or Ashburnham Pentateuch, named for the lord who purchased it from the person who removed it from the Church of Saint Gatien in Tours.

• Produced in the imperial scriptorium of Rome on commission from Princess Galla Placidia to educate her son Emperor Valentinian III in the Christian doctrine.

• Bound in wood with goatskin and fire-engraved in gold.

• Unique edition of 999 numbered copies with notarized certificate of authenticity.