7 - This is really a wonder because…'s by jorgesanchez

Moreruela de Tabara - Spain … in the middle of the X century in this Monastery, called San Salvador de Tábara, where painted the illuminated manuscripts illustrating the VIII century comments of the Spanish Beato de Liébana about the Apocalypses Book by Saint John the Evangelist. Today, theses codixes, made on parchment from animal skin, are considered some of the most beautiful of the Middle Ages in Europe. In Tábara was created a new style of illuminated manuscripts based in motifs Carolingians and Islamic, what is unique in Europe. There is even an illuminated manuscript of a Cistercian Beato from Manchester. For your guidance, Cistercian means a monk belonging to the Order of Cistern, and Beato means in Spanish a pious man. (The picture shows the monastery in miniature).

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