Valcavado Beatus

It is recorded as the work of Oveco. Materials recorded for it are parchment. It is associated with Spain. The record gives 970 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It is associated with art of illumination in early medieval Spain. Recorded genres are religious art. It is recorded in the collection of Biblioteca de Santa Cruz.

• Name — Valcavado Beatus • Title Orig — Beato de Valcavado • Orig Lang Code — es • Illustrator — Oveco • Pub Date — 970 • Media Type — ink and illumination on parchment • Pages — 230 • Notes — Historical Library of Santa Cruz

In 970, during the reign of Ramiro III of León, a monk named Oveco in the monastery at Valcavado copied and made miniatures on parchment for Valcavado's abbot, Sempronio, of the commentary by Saint Beatus of the Santo Toribio de Liébana monastery between 765 and 775 AD. The Valcavado Beatus is among the 32 copies that still exist today of this work, many of them lavishly illuminated. The manuscript by Oveco remained there until the 16th century. Ambrosio de Morales described seeing it there in 1572. But in 1590 it was no longer there. It traveled to León and afterwards to Madrid where it was owned by a secretary to Philip II of Spain. In the 17th century, the manuscript belonged to the Jesuit school of Saint Ambrosio in Valladolid, and when Charles III of Spain ordered the Jesuits expelled, the contents of their library went to the University of Valladolid.

Valcavado Beatus is recorded as made of parchment. Associated with Spain. Recorded from 970.